V''
Russian Government Showed
It Was in Earnest.
RED FLAGS SOON HAULED DOWN
Fanatical Commander and About
1,500 of His Mutineers Surren
der After Brief Fight.
The official dispatches to St.
Petersburg announcing the decisive
crushing of the greut mutiny at Se
bastopol, and the capture of all the
mutineers, including the fanatical
commander. Lieutenant Schmidt, has
raisod a great loud from the hearts
of Count Witte and his associates in
the government.
The dispatches show that the re
sistance of the mutineers when they
were convinced that the government
meant business and could count on
the active support of the troops in
the forts was faint -hearted. As the
Otchakoff fired only half a dozen
shots before hauling down its flag
the damage to the city of Sehastopol
may be far loss than had been ex
pected. The admiralty announces that It
has received from General Kaulbars,
governor general of Odessa, the fol
lowing telegram addressed to him by
Vice Admiral Choukhin at Sehastopol
dated May 29:
"We wished to terminate the affair
on November 2S by surrounding the
mutinous division with troops and is
suing an ultimatum for unconditional
surrender. The mutineers, however,
commenced to attack on the night of
November 27, seizing the torpedo
boat Svirepot and three others which
had drawn near the cruiser Otcha
koff. "All these vessels hoisted red flags,
after which the Otchakoff flew the
signal that Lieutenant Schmidt was
In command of the fleet.
"At 3:30 o'clock on the afternoon
of November 29, fire was opened by
field artillery on the ships in the
southern harbor flying .red flags.
These flags were immediately lower
ed and Lieutenant Schmidt signaled:
'I have many captured officers.'
"The Otchakoff then opened Are, to
which the north shore battery and
the loyal ships, whose breech blocks
, had been restored, replied. The
Svirepoi advanced to the attack, but
was met with a strong fire from two
cruisers, and from the battleship Ros
tlslav. The Svirepoi was immediate
ly put out of action, as were also
two other torpedo boats, one of which
sank. The Otchakoff had fired bare
ly six shots when she hoisted the
, white flag and the squadron ceased
to fire. A conflagration broke out on
the Otchakoff, and boats were sent
to rescue the survivors and to trans
fer those who had been wounded.
Lieutenant Schmidt, who was dress
ed a a common sailor, escaped but
was arrested later."
General Katilbars telegraphed later
that he had Just received a telegram
from Captain Bergel, chief of Admir
al Chouknln's staff, saying that dur
ing the night about 1,500 mutineers
had surrendered, with 19 quickfirlng
guns, tt the Brest regiment and that
the barracks were occupied by
troops.
General Katilbars also forwarded
"an additional dispatch from Admiral
Chouknin, saying that the barracks
In which the mutineers had defended
themselves, had been occupied by
the troops.
General Kaulbar's dispatch says
that the mutineers who surrendered,
together with those captured on the
Elchakoff, number 2,000, the majority
of them being reservists, who were
sent to the barracks at the time of
the mutiny.
Reports of the number of dead
vary from 5,000 to a much smaller
number.
Another Football Player Dies.
James Foster, 23 years old, of Cuba,
N. Y., a tackle on the All-College
team, of Syracuse, died at a private
hospital In Buffalo. N. Y., as the re
sult of Injuries received in a football
game at Sharon, Pa.
CUBA ELECTS PRESIDENT
Palma Returned to Office and Moder
. ate Candidates Are Chosen.
The political agitation which began
six months ago with the national
convention of the Liberal party and
which has dwindled since the with
drawal of Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez
the presidential candidate named by
that convention, ended in a quiet
election. The vote was very light
this being due to the lack of interest
In the .wholly one-sided election.
i The withdrawal of the Liberals from
all nominations left a clear field for
the Moderates, and every Moderate
nominee was elected from President
Palma to the provincial councilors.
' Fire Destroys Dormitory.
The boys' dormitory at the Indiana
(Pa.) State Normal school took fire
and was entirely destroyed with most
of the furniture. The building was
erected 10 years ago and the loss is
estimated at $40,000 with $8,000 In
surance. Six members of the faculty:
Profs. Walter Mitchell, R. E. Owens,
Sherman Lowry, F. A. Hildebrand, L.
L. M. Eaken, J. M. Hickman, with
their families, lived in the building
and lost their furniture and libraries.
NEW CABINET FOR SPAIN
Senor Mo ret Undertakes the Task of
Forming One.
King Alfonso has accepted the resig
nation of the Cabinet and has request
ed Benor Moret, formerly Minister of
the Interior, to form a new Ministry.
Senor Moret has drawn up a list
containing: For Minister of the In
terior, Senor Romanones; Minister of
War, Senor Duque; Minister of Mar
ine, Senor Concas, and Minister of Fi
nance. Benor Salvador. .
CZAR'S GUARD UNDER ARREST
Disaffection In the Army Spreads to
the Imperial Palace.
General excitement has been 'Caus
ed by an unconfirmed rumor that a
Russian grand duke shot at the czar,
wounding him in the right hand.
The most alarming indication of
the spread of disaffection In the Rus
sian army, extending even to regi
ments near the person of the em
peror, was given In the arrest at
Tsarkoe-Selo, of a number of soldiers
belonging to the Yellow Cuirassiers
of the guard, the Hussars guard and
the Life Guard riflemen for present
ing, a series of petitions, Including
one against the use of troops for
police purposes.
The regiments In question are
those which have been specially se
lected by Gen. Trepolf to guard the
Emperor and his family. They have
been counted upon as being loyal to
the last, ready even to be torn to
pieces in defense of his majesty, like
the Swiss guards of Louis XVI. Their
arrest, however, although not for
open sedition, shows how the leaven
of discontent is working even within
the precincts of the Imperial park at
TsarsUo-Selo.
FAMILY OF FOUR KILLED
Gas Escaping Near House Ignites and
Explosion Ensues.
In a gas explosion at their home
near Weston, W. Va., Charles F.
Douglass, his wife and their two chil
dren were instantly killed and their
bodies were roasted almost beyond
recognition.
The Douglass family lived on a
farm, and near their home ran a large
main, containing a heavy pressure ot
gas. A valve was blown out of the
pipe and a tremendous volume of
gas poured out, enveloping the house.
It ignited from a gas jet on the op
posite 'side of the house from the
pipe-line, and aa explosion resulted.
The house was blown to splinters
and the ruins, under which were bur
ied the four victims, were consumed
by the flames.
CONFESSES KILLING FAMILY
Prisoner Admits He Murdered His
Wife and Five Children.
William S. McWilliams confessed to
the murder last week of his wife and
five children at his farm house, near
Independence. McWllliams says he
committed the net because he be
lieved his children would be better
off dead than alive, and because he
could live no longer with his wife,
whom he accused of driving him to
desperation with demands for money.
McWilliams suld he first struck his
wife and each child down with a ham
mer and then stabbed them with a
butcher knife.
BURTON GETS SIX. MONTHS.
Senator Must Also Pay $2,500 Fine
and Loses His Civil Rights.
XTnited States Senator Joseph
Ralph Burton of Kansas, was sen
tenced in the United States circuit
court to serve six months in the Iron
county jail, Ironton, Mo., and to pay
a fine of $2,500 as the penalty for
conviction on the indictment, charg
ing that he hud acted in the capacity
of a paid attorney for the Rialto
Grain Company.
The sentence carries with it the
further penalty of being forever bar
red from holding any position of profit
or trust under the state or national
governments.
Senator Fined for Contempt.
Vnlted States Senator Thomas M.
Patterson, was held by the Colorado
supreme court to be in contempt for
printing certain cartoons and editor
ials in Ins two newspapers, and was
fined $1,000, to be committed to Jail
until paid. Subsequently the court
ordered a stay of execlulion for six
ty days. Senator Patterson declared
he would go to jail rather than pay
the fine. His attorneys also Informed
the court , that Senator Patterson
would exercise his constitutional
right as a Vnlted Senator to claim
exemption from arrest while Congress
was in session.
. DAMAGE BY LAKE STORM
Eleven Lives Lost and Ten Vessels
Wrecked In Gale.
Eleven lives lost and It) shipwrecks
constitute the net results of the storm
which lasted two days on Lake Su
perior. Of the wrerks those of the
steamers Jlalaafa, Crescent City,
Etlenborn and Lafayette seem to be
total, l i addition the Elwood sank
in Dululli harbor; the barge Manila,
in tow of the Lafayette, was beached
near Two harbors; the steamers Eng
land and Brnnsford were stranded,
while the barges Madeira nnd Con
stitution are missing.
A fireman of the Lafayette was
drowned, and the second assistant
englners of the Edenborn was lost,
while nine members of the crew of
the Mataafa were frozen to death or
drowned.
Unclaimed Fund of $738,000.
Through the failure of many per
sons to take up money orders made
out to them there has accumrr'.ilated
in the Postofflce department at Wash
ington, $735,510 of such funds which,
under the provisions of an act of
Congress passed at the last session,
was turned Into the Treasury.
New York's Oldest Woman Dead.
Mary Jane vHarris, believed to be
the oldest woman In the State of j-jw
York, died at New Rochelle In her
112th year. Her grandmother was a
full-blooded Indian, and she claimed
to be a descendent of Pocahontas.
It was reported to the Brooklyn po
lice that burglars had broken Into
the Pratt Institute and carried off
$50,000 worth of Jewelry and other
articles of value which lies In their
antiquity..
STORM IN LAKE REGION
Terrific Gales Drive Vessels on
Rocks Wrecking Several.
LAKES WERE LASHED TO FURY
Heavy Snowfall Stops Railways and
8treet Cars In Many Sections
of Northwest.
In one of the most terrific gales In
the history of Yt'isconsln or the great
lakes, even surpassing in fury the ter
rible storm of last September, in
which so many men lost their lives
in the vicinity of the Apostle islands,
three big lake steamers were driven
ashore within sight of the lighthouse
at the Duluth entrance to the local
harbor, and several members of the
crew of one of the boats, the Mataafa,
are believed to have perished.
The wrecks are the Crescent City
and the Mataafa, ot the Pittsburgh
Steamship Company, and the R. W.
England, owned by the England
Transportation Company of Cleve
land. In the Lake Superior District, the
worst slorm since 1872 created wide
havoc. Belated news from lake ports
told of vessels being smashed on the
rocks, or cast ashore to be pounded to
splinters by the fury of the storm.
In Superior, Wis., and many other
cities in that district, six feet of snow
was reported, with the people practi
cally snowbound In their homes, bnt
tling with the rapidly incoming drifts.
Street oar traffic in many northwest
ern cities was entirely abandoned,
while the steam roads were paralyzed
or the trains running without sched
ule. At Milwaukee the lighthouse
was wrecked, the stranded steamer
Appomattox torn to pieces by the
gale, and farther up the lake the big
Steel Corporation steamer Crescent
City, built entirely of steel and sup
posed to be stormproof, was battered
Into junk after the crew had escaped
to the shore on a plank.
FOOTBALL PROHIBITED
Columbia University Will Not Permit
the Game as Played Now.
Columbia university has abolished
the game of football, as nt present
played, ns one of the sports In which
students of the university will be
permitted to engage.
This action was taken at a meeting
of the Columbia Vniverslty committee
on student organizations held at the
university, at which were present the
members of the committee, Prof.
Lord, chairman; Prof. Mitchell and
Prof. Odell, and also President Nicho
las Mm ray Butler and Dean Ktrch-
wey and Prof. Bogert, the two latter
former chairmen of the committee.
Prof. Lord said, after the meeting
of the- committee.
"The reasons for this action need
no explanation. They must be pat
ent to the mind of everyone acquaint
ed with the game as now played.
Only by such radical action can the
university and college life be rid of
an obsession which, It Is believed,
has become as burdensome to the
great mass of students as it has prov
ed Itself harmful to academic stand
ing and dangerous to human life."
FOOTBALL VICTIMS
Present Season Holds the Record for
Dead and Injured.
Nineteen dead and 137 seriously in
jured is the record of the football sea
son of 1905. This year's record of
deaths is more than double that of the
yearly average for the last five years,
the total for that period being 45.
The increase in the heavy armor
worn by players and the close mass
plays are responsible for much of the
slaughter. A significant fact is that
the teams playing an open game have
ecaped with less than their usual
quota of accidents. Of those killed
11 were High School players and 10
were boys of 17 and tinder. Three
hardened, seasoned and presumably
physically fit college men were slain.
PRESIDENT IN COUNTRY
Roosevelt Family Eats Thanksgiving
Dinner at New Virginia Home.
Universal observance of President
Rooscvelts Thanksgiving proclama
tion was held In Washington. The
departure of the President nnd his
family for a day at his country place
at Plain Dealing, about 10 miles from
Bid Hill, Va., had not been announc
ed in advance, although plans for the
day on the part of the members of
the Cabinet and their families did not
contemplate any White House func
tion. Two cooks from the White
House accompanied the party to pre
pare the Thanksgiving dinner.
Officers to Cook and Bake.
Under a new policy decided by the
War department officers of the com
missary department are to be taught
to bake bread and will be given prac
tical instructions la cooking. It Is
the belief that with the acquirement
of practical and technical knowledge
by officers in the baking of bread and
cooking of food a great Improvement
can be brotight about in the prepara
tion of food for the arm.
h
Bank Closed at Boston.
The American National bank of
Boston, closed Its doors, the direc
tors being dissatisfied with the ex
ecutive management of the bank. It
is said depositors will be paid in full
and stockholders will receive divi
dends. The bank was established in
1901 and owed depositors $207,520.
A board of regents of the Univer
sity of California has just concluded
the purchase of the Bancroft library
for $20.000.
GOMPERS RE-ELECTED
American Federation of Labor
Chooses Officers.
The silver anniversary convention
of the American Federation adjourn
ed November 25th to moot next year
In Minneapolis, Minn. Samuel
Gompers, of Washington, D. C, was
re-elected president by practically
unanimous votes, only two votes hav
ing been cast against him. The re
tirement of Thomas I. Kldd. as fifth
vice president, advances the can
didates behind that office, and all
who were candidates for re-election
were successful except Eighth Vice
President W. J. Spencer, of Dayton,
O., who was defeated for the seventh
vice presidency by W. D. Huber, of
Indianapolis, Iud. Joseph F. Valen
tine, of Cincinnati, O., was the only
new officer elected, defeating William
D. Mahon, of Detroit, Mich.
Frank K. Foster, of Boston, and
James IT. Wilson; of New York, were
chosen to represent the federation at
the British trades and labor congress,
and Thomas A. Rickert, of New York,
was elected to attend the Canadian
labor congress.
SHELL PIERCES ARMOR
An Eight-Inch Ball Goes Through
Plate and Dock at Proving
Ground.
What an eight-Inch nrriior piercing
shell fired at a distance of 1,500 yards
will do to the side of an armored
cruiser, protected by a five-Inch ar
mor plate on a protective deck, nearly
three Inches thick, was demonstrated
by an important test at the naval
proving grounds at Indianhead. The
shell pierced the five-Inch plate, went
through the Inclined protective deck
and buried itself In the coal bunk
ers. The test was in the presence of
the board of construction of the navy
department nnd officers of the bureau
of ordlnnnce, steam engineering,
equipment and construction and re
pair. The results of the test will be
considered at an early meeting of the
bonrd of construction in connection
with armor to be supplied to the new
ships.
CRUSHED BY ICE
Amundsen's Expedition In Search of
Magnetic Pole Loses Ship.
George Cleveland of Massachusetts
returned to Dundee, Scotland, from a
whaling expedition In Davis strait.
bringing news from Eskimo sources
that Captain Amundsen's Arctic ex
pedition ship Gjoa had been crushed
in the ice at Boothia Felix, the north
ernmost part of the mainland of
North America, and that the explor
ers escaped and had been living with
the natives. The Dundee whalers
who were appointed to meet Captain
Amundsen with stores, have not been
able to trace him.
Captain Ronald Amundsen conceiv
ed the Idea of searching for the mag
netic pole. The expedition left Chris
tlanla, Norway, June 17, 1903. ,
TO FIGHT RATE BILL
Various Railway Organizations Move
to Oppose the Roosevelt Idea.
An organized movement on the part
of railroad employes In every branch
of the service has been put on foot
to secure concerted action against the
Roosevelt Idea of rate legislation.
Preliminary steps have already been
taken by committees from the differ
ent brotherhoods of railroad men for
a general mass meeting. Rate regu
lation, in the opinion of the employ
es, means a subsequent reduction In
wages for them, and they propose a
strong organization to oppose any
move to give the government direc
tion of traffic rates.
Sentenced to Prison.
Judge Thomas of Meadvllle, Pa.,
filed an opinion refusing D. W. Ty
ron a new trial in two cases of em
bezzlement. Tyron was interested in
the Spartansburg bank, which failed
a short time ago, and which held
state funds. Tyron Is orderd to pny
a fine of $7GG,72, costs of prosecution
nnd undergo imprisonment In the
Western penitentiary for two years.
The defendant has appealed to the
supreme court.
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE
Steering Gear Breaks and Machine
Plunges Down Hill.
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife
of former Congressman Francis Bur
ton Harrison of New York, was kill
ed by the overturning of nn auto
mobile In which she was riding with
a party of friends from San Francis
co. The car was running down a
steep hill near Long Island City when
a break in the steering gear caused
the accident.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence T. Scott of
San Francisco and Charles T. Crock
er, also of San Francisco, a Yale
student, and a brother of Mrs. Har
rison, were Injured. Mr. Scott
suffered a fractured rib and Is in a
serious condition, his wife was rend
ered unconscious, but later was re
vived. Mr. Crocker was bruised, and
the chauffeur slightly hurt. Mrs.
Harrison's neck was broken.
Oil Field Workers on Strike. '
The ttrlke of Texas oil field work
men against a reduction in wages of
60 cents a day, went into effect at Bat
son, Humble, Saratoga, Sour Lake
and Spindle Top, the Guffey Company
and Pass and Eastham being affected.
About S50 men are out.
Quay's New York Estate.
The appraisal of the estate of Sena
tor Matthew S. Quay, just filed in
the Surrogate's office, at New York,
shows that he left a personal estate in
this State of $105,582, consisting of
C25 shares of the Mer'genthnler Lino
type Company stock.
Secretary Root declared the Ameri
cans on the Isle of Pines to be
amenable to the laws of Cuba, and
without authority to form a United
States territorial government. ' '
NINE BLOWN TO ATOMS
Explosion at Powder Mill Causes
Great Loss of Life.
HORRIBLE SCENE PRESENTED
Portions of Bodies of Men Found
Scattered Among the Ruins of
8pllntered Buildings.
The Keystone Powder Company's
plant at Emporium. Pa., was com
pletely wrecked and nine men killed
by an explosion.
The dead are John Bossle, Jumes
Joyce, James Campbell, John Hamil
ton, John Butler, William Murphy,
Thomas Welsh, Frank Harrington and
William Sprung.
Joseph Ganey was perhaps fatally
Injured, while a dozen others were
more or less Injured. Two explos
ions occurred simultaneously In the
mixing room and a packing room.
The cause Is not. known.
The body of William Sprung Is the
only one recovered, that being Identi
fied by the clothing. The top of his
head and one leg were blown off.
Searching parties are still looking for
bodies, which are being picked up in
small pieces.
The explosion took , place at 10
o'c'ock. Schools, stores nnd indus
tries in town were closed and a
stream of excited humanity, among
thorn the families of the men em
ployed at the powder plant, started
along the road to the scene of the
accident.
A great hole where the main
buildings stood, with a Howlng of
splintered timbers and warped iron,
gave ocular evidence of the destruc
tive force, while here and there, ly
ing among the wreck, the ghastly
portions of men's bodies added horror
to the scene.
There is no chance of Identification
of more than two or three of the vic
tims. Indeed, for the most part,
there is nothing to be found of the
bodies of the men, they having been
blown to atoms. Ganey, the man who
escaped with awful burns, may not
have been in the buildings at the
time of the explosion, for he was
found 50 yards away from where the
buildings stood.
It Is presumed that the explosive
which ignited was dynamite, for the
plant has been engaged on a large
order of this for several weeks past.
Maryland Railroad Sold.
The Western Maryland railroad has
acquired the Georges Creek nnd
Cumberland railroad after negotia
tions extending over several weeks.
The price was in the neighborhood of
$2,000,000. The Georges Creek and
Cumberland runs from Cumberland to
Loaaconlng, a distance of about 47
miles, and the principal owners were
the American and the Maryland Coal
companies.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
The trial of the first issues in the
Indictments found against the beef
packers for operating in restraint of
trade has been set for December 12.
The United States supreme court
decided that It was without jurisdic
tion in the case of Mrs. Mabel Rog
ers under sentence of death in Ver
mont for the murder of her hus
band. The responsibility is witli the
state authorities.
Former Congressman H. Klrke Port
er of Pittsburg, has made a donation
of $25,000 to the endowment fund Of
$500,000 being raised for higher edu
cational work In foreign lands by the
Baptist Missionary union.
The last Thursday of April has been
selected by the national committee as
the day for inaugurating the President
of the United States.
The emperor of Germnny opened the
relchstag in a Bpeech from the
throne, declaring that. Germany's de
fense must be strengthened.
James B. Oliver, President, of the
Oliver lion & Steel Company, nnd
prominently identified with a number
of Industrial concerns, died at his
home at Shields, near Sewickjey, Pa.,
after a brief illness of pneumonia.
Captain Howard P. Sherman
of the United States Light
house Service dropped dead
just as he was . about to greet a
friend who was coming down the
gangplank of the steamer Ponce, from
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
While Marquis Ito was in a train
with Minister Hayashi and members
of their suites a window of his car
was smashed. Four natives were ar
rested. It is believed the act was
committed by members of the so-called
Patriot Students' Society to resent
the new treaty with Japan.
WILL TELL ALL SHE KNOWS
Mrs. Chadwick Writes Note to Fed
eral Bankruptcy Referee. -Mrs.
Cossie L. Chadwick expressed
the desire to go on the witness stand
again in connection with the bank
ruptcy proceedings against her, and
wrote a letterto Referee Harold
Remington, of the Federal Bank
ruptcy court, requesting him to set a
date for reopening her case. Mrs.
Chadwick declares that if an oppor
tunity Is again given her to go on the
stand she will tell without reservation
all the facts concerning her financial
dealings.
AMERICAN ATTACKED
Second Secretary of American Em
bassy Almost Killed.
Robert Wood Bliss, second secre
tary of the American Embassy, who
has jtiBt returned to St. Petersburg
from a vacation In Paris, was the vic
tim of an outrage by rowdies In one
of the most fashionable streets of
the capital, and only escaped being
beaten to death through the timely
arrival of the police.
DUN'8 WEEKLY SUMMARY
Feeling of Confidence in Future of
Business in All Lines Manufac-
turing Plants Busy.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade says: Business conditions cer
tainly warranted a day of gratitude
this year more than ever before, but
In many industries it was difficult to
take time for a holiday without falling
still further behind orders and Increas
ing the complajnts of Importunate
purchasers. An' idea of the volume
of trade in November is shown by a
dally average of bank exchanges that
exceeded last year's figures by four
per cent., which in turn 'surpassed all
previous monthly records. Yet un
seasonably mild weather In Novem
ber has postponed retail business in
winter goods.
Christmas trade opens with a vol
ume that promises to eclipse all earl
ier records, and the feeling of confi
dence in the future Is strengthened
by the encouraging statement that the
strike of structural iron workers may
not become general.
Crops supply the foundation of this
country's commercial prosperity and
the value of all farm products, accord
ing to the annual report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was even great
er than estimated. Manufacturing
plants make most satisfactory re
turns, despite the high level of prices
for raw materials nnd Inadequate
transporting facilities. Railway earn
ings thus far available for November
were C.5 per cent, larger than a year
ago and foreign comerce at New York
for the last week shows gains of
$4,280,535 In exports and $2,874,907
In imports as compared with last
year's figures.
Progress Is fully maintained In the
Iron and steel Industry. Quotations
of all forms, from ore to finished steel,
nre firmly maintained, several small
advances being noted and all available
statistics testify to unprecedented ac
tivity. In the primary market for
cotton goods It is rather a matter of
delivery than of price, the toward
tendency of quotations having little
effect on the attitude of purchasers.
Conditions are unchanged in woolens
nnd worsteds, the raw material being
strengthened by the London auction
pales. Quiet conditions in the packer
hide market have become so pro
nounced that the tone is less firm al
though no definite change In quota
tions can be recorded.
McCURDAY REGIME ENDED
President, Son and Son-in-Law Quit
Life Insurance Company.
Richard A. McCurdy, president of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
has resigned. The date of his resig
nation depends only on the time re
quired by the trustees to find his suc
cessor. The Investigating committee
did not accept Mr. McCurdy's offer
to cut his salary in half, because such
acceptance would have pledged them
to a continuance of the McCurdy re
gime. Quickly following the retirement of
President McCurdy, his son, Robert
H. McCurdy, general manager of the
Mutual, and hi son-in-law, Louis A.
Thebaud, the favored general agent
for New York, have resigned. Each
of these three men has been drawing
approximately $150,000 a year in sal
aries and commissions from the com
pany, besides their indirect profits In
financial transactions with Mutual
money.
SULTAN YIELDS
Said to Have Agreed to Fulfill De
mands of the Powers.
Eight warships of the combined
fleet arrived at Mytilene. Admiral
Hitter von Jedlna, accompanied by
the Austrian consul, proceeded to
government house and banded an
untimatum to the governor. At 1
o'clock In the nfternoon 500 sailors
landed and seized the customs and
telegraph offices.
The Vienna "Neue Frele Presse"
published a dispatch from Constanti
nople saying that the sultan through
Tewfik Pasha, the foreign minister,
has announced to Baron von Callca
the ambassador of Attstro-Hungary,
that Turkey acceded to the demands
of the powers regarding the finan
cial control of Macedonia.
GRANDMOTHER AT 31.
A Virginian Claims Palm Over Ohio
Woman.
In a letter to the Columbus "Dis
patch" in which she takes exceptions
to the claim of Mrs. Mary Scott, of
Mt. Vernon, O., to be called the
youngest grandmother In the Vnlted
States, Mrs. Katherlne Halrston, of
Bassltts. Henry county, Virginia,
says: "I was a grandmother at the
age of 31. I was married at the age
of 14 and my daughter at the age of
13 and am entitled to take preced
ence. I am now the grandmother of
two children and am still under 33.
If any other woman can beat this I
would be pleased to hear from her."
Tragedy in Michigan.
Enraged by gossip that his wife
cared more for his friend, Frank
Dtibrowtki, than for himself, Carl
KokosinskI, a tinner, of Grand Hav
en, Mich., shot his wife and Dubrow-
ski, shot and killed his little son,
Eddie, mortally wounded his 5-year-
old son Max, shot a neighbor, Joseph
Smith, who tried to stop the whole
sale shooting, and then sent a bullet
through his own brain.
Korea Will Make Protest.
The Korean minister, Mln Yeung
Tchan, will sail for New York for the
purpose of presenting a protest nt
Washington against Japan assuming
authority over Korea. The minister
says the protest emanated from the
emperor of Korea, who cables Instruc
tions to present a protest to France
and the United States. The minis
ter's advices say that Japan's as
sumption of power was accompanied
by a display of armed force and that
the emperor was treated violently.''
KEYSTONE STATE CULLING5
TEN 8TATION3 ABOLI3HED
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
8trikes Names from List of 8tops
on the Pittsburg Division.
Tea stations on the Pittsburg di
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad
have been abolished. Increased traf
fic on the local division is given as the .
reason for cutting out the stations.
G. W. Creighton, general superintend
ent at Altoona, issued a circular an
nouncing the abolishing of the fol
lowing stations on the local division.
Including the Southwest branch. Ruth,
Davidson, Wheeler, Ferguson, Stam
baugh, Evans, Lacolle, Conemauga
Furnace, Sang Hollow and Allegrlp
pus. The majority of the stations
which were abolished were only small
points and none but the local trains
stopped there. The freight tratlc oa
the Pittsburg division has reached
such proportions that It became
necessary to do away with some of
the less Important stations. .
Postmaster Michael Beaver, of
Bradley Junction, Cambria county,
was driving home at night, when
three men stepped out of the bushes,
and while one man covered him with
a revolver the other two dragged him
out of the buggy and rifled his pock
ets, securing $300. Beaver was too
frightened to object. After, the
highwaymen got all they were after
they put him back in the buggy and
hit the horse with the whip, taking
to the woods.
Fire destroyed the house of Richard
Matthews, near Greensboro, and his
4-months-old baby was burned to
death. Matthews is an employe ot
the Bessemer Coke company and
was at work. His wife had gone to a
neighbors for milk, leaving three
small children in the house. The fire
Is supposed to have been caused by
the baby carriage being pushed too
near the open grate.
John T. Dalley, a boss employed at
the stables of the Dunbar Furnace
Co., was brutally beaten and robbed.
While going from his home to the
company's stable he was accosted by
two negroes, who ransacked his pock
ets, obtaining only a few cents. Af
terward he was given a severe beat
ing for not having In his possession '
more money.
Mad with jealously, Steven Czlntel
shot and killed his wife and then
himself at their home in Dorothy, a
little mining village a mile west of
Lalrobe. The couple was married
three months ago. Czlntel was aged '
23 and his wife aged 26. The husband
was Insanely jealous of an Allegheny
butcher, and had stated he would kill
either him or himself.
Amelia Fryer, of Derry, a nurse
who graduated from the Memorial
Hospital Training School five years
ago, was burned to death at Johns
town. Miss Fryer had been nursing
Mrs. Conrad Schwlg. A lamp explod
ed and a flood of oil was thrown,
over her clothing. She was removed
to the hospital, where she died.
While smoking a pipe, which be
had purchased the evening before,
Frank Porter, the six-year-old grand
son of Joseph Sickafuse, of the Wil
mington road, near New Castle, Is al
leged to have set fire to the latter'g
barn, which was destroyed. Mr.
Sickafuse was severely burned while
getting his horses out of the build-
ing. The loss is about $3,500.
Mrs. Minnie Salow, of. Erie, con
victed of manslaughter and perform
ing a criminal operation, was sent
enced by Judge Walling to nine years'
solitary confinement In the Western
Penitentiary. She was charged with
leaving a new-born infant in a cold
wash-bowl until it perished.
Senator Boies Penrose has engag
ed a suite of rooms at the Common
wealth annex for the coming extra
session of the Legislature. The Sen
ator will come to Harrisburg in Jan
uary to co-operate with Gov. Samuel
W. Pennypacker for the enactment of
the proposed reform legislation.
The Mahler glass plant at Du Bols,
which was started up for the season's
run about one month ago has shut
down and it will not be operated
again this season. The reason given
by T. P. Welch, the lessee, is the
demoralized condition of the glass
market.
Ten mills of the Shenango tin plant, ,
which have been Idle for the past six
months, will start up, giving employ
ment to 1,000 men. The other ' 20
mills of the Shenango have been
working steadily. ...
The Donora council has granted' a
franchise to the West Shore Street
Railway company which proposes
building a line connecting Donora
with Monessen, Charleroi and other
river towns.
Elizabeth Henderson, of Beaver
Falls, died in the hospital at Sharon,
from the effects of a fall while visit
ing at the home of her brother fa
Wheatland. She was 64 years old.
Mrs. Daniel Welfley, 43 years old,
was thrown out of a buggy near
Donegal, Westmoreland county, and
killed. A husband and three chil
dren survive her.
The Lawrence glass works at New
Castle, which started up a week ago
with four blowing machines, will op
erate in full with four more machines.
The plant employs 400 men now.
John H. Weiss, president judge of
Dauphin county, was stricken with
paralysis November 16 and never ral
lied. Mary Shaylor, 30 years old, and
Henry Whitmlller; a babe of 8 months,
were burned to death In a fire which
iestroyod the house of William Ack
!ey in Towanda township. Two men
were seriously burned c several
others sustained severe lnj..,les. The
Fire was started through the accident
al upsetting of an oil lamp.
John Hinn, a steel worker, while
hunting near Canonsburg, was acci
lentally shot and killed by Ttios. Lewis
Sr., a companion of Hinn. Hinn was
tbout 45 years old and leaves a wife.
He 'had resided la- Canonsburg foi
leveral years.
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