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fS N. M. F. Q.F. M. IL Q' V?j'ßth. y llthA5yl9th. VJ 27 PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telecraphlc Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment ot the Many Motorman Gets 3,200 Volts. Three thousand, two hundred volts of electricity "passed through the body of Cash Ross, a motorman on the Indianapolis & Cincinnati traction line, at Connersville, Ind., and he still lives. The hand that grasped the conductor of the powerful fluid was practically burned off and he was thrown unconscious to the ground from the top of his car. where he was adjusting a ''fiddle bow." A deep gash was cut in his head when he struck the ground. In spite of all this -die recovered consciousness under the care of a physician, who assisted him to the car and sent him on to Rushville, where he received further medical attention. The Toltage of electricity In the wire was nearly twice as high as that used in the death chairs of the penitentiaries, and the Imperfect contact Rossh had with the metal was probably all that saved him from Instant death. Big Loss at Springfield. Fire which threatened the entire business section, wiped out $230,000 worth of property at Springfield, 111. The flames started on the top floor of the Johnson-Hatcher ütore at Seventh and Adams streets. A boy playing Santa Claus stepped on a match and the lnflamables caught fire. The fire spread to the buildings at the west and consumed the James T. Jones, B. E. Bartel and Myers stores. They were stopped by the fire-proof walls of the new seven-story Bressmer building, whose contents were damaged by -smoke and water. Exptosior Kills Twenty-five In Italy. A terrific explosion occurerd at Palermo, Italy, in the military powder magazine, where a large quantity of dynamite wa3 stored, and was followed bya number of lesser" explosions, the whole town being badly shaken up and the people thrown into a panic. Almost Immediately flames shot up into the air and spread to the ruins of the houses that had fallen, adding greatly to the terror- of those who were in the Immediate neighborhood of the disaster. It is estimated that ibcnt tweuiy-five persons were killed auJ a hundred others injured. Billy Rice, the Minstrel, Dead. William Henry Rice, one of the best known minstrels in the United States, died of pneumonia 1 in a hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He was 63 years of age. Rice was born in Philadelphia and when a lad secured employment as a singer with Charlotte Cushman's company. A few years later he went on the stage as a black face female impersonator and traveled throughout this country and Europe. He Is survived by three sons who are engaged in mercantile business in New York. Mauritania's New Record. , The large turbiner Mauretania, which left Daunts Rock at 10:50 a. m. December 15, arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship Friday, December 20, at 6:33 a. m., making the passage in fire days and fifty-five minutes. Her average speed was 23 knots and her highest day's run C33 knots. $175,000 Fire at Fort Smith, Ark. Fire at Fort Smith, Ark., destroyed the Haglin, a six-story office building, the American National building and two other buildings. Loss $173,000. James McVitty, a cotton buyer, and a man named Kauffman, who slept in the Haglin building, are missing and are believed to have perished. John Mitchell is Improving. The condition of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, who is in a hospital in Indianapolis, Ind., has so far improved that his physician, Dr. E. F. Hodges, informed him he probably would be able to take his Christmas dinner with his family at Spring Valley, 111. Senator Mallory of Florida Dead. United States Senator Mallory died at 12:48 Monday morning at his home in Pensacola, Fla. Parliament Is Called. At a privy council held at Buckingham Palace, London, Eng., King Edward signed a proclamation definitely summoning Parliament to meet January 29. Gave $5,000,000 to Charity. A dispatch from Dresden says: The late Queen Carola has bequeathed to charitable organizations the larger part of her fortune, which m ail is estimated at about $5.000,000. Eaa Fights Dog and Man. Charle Kench of East Litchfield, Conn., has been severely injured in a fight with an eagle. The eagle seized Kenth's dog, but turned its attention to the man when Kench went to the dog's rescue. Kench's scalp was badly torn and his face and hands scratched by the Lird's beak and claws, but he finally managed to cut its throat with a garden trowel. Sunday Closing Jury Disagrees. The first Sunday closing jury in Chicago failed to reach a verdict, standing igLt for acquittal, and was discharged after twenty-four hours deliberation. State to Sue Phone Combine. Attorney General Ellis of Ohio will bring suit asked for in the complaint made to him by the independent telephone interests p-.-ainst the merger contract of the Marion County Telephone Company and the Central Union, but will merely ask the court to pass upon the validity of the contract. Government Buys More Silver. The Treasury Department in Washington has purchased 300,000 ounces of silerfor delivery in equal amounts at Philadelphia, New Orleans and Denver at C&5 cents per fine ounce.

COAL MINES FOR RAILROAD ONLY

Public Even in Union Pacific District Must Buy Fuel Elsewhere. The New York Journal of Commerce says: It was let.rned yesterday that the Union Pacific directors, in common with directors of other roads owning ami opcrating coal mines, have been discussing the question of the segregation of the coal and transportation departments in accordance with the provisions of the rate law of last year. The provisions of this law will prohibit them on and after May 1 fiom transporting any article or conimoditj, other than timber, manufactured or produced by them. The company may produce and transport its own coal for its own use it transjortation or otherwise, but may not sell such coal (from its own mines) before or after it has Wen transported. It is planned by the Union Pacific to keep its coal mines for its own exclusive use. Consumers, even in the company's district, will be compelled to buy their supplies elsewhere, which means, the directors believe, that the Union Pacific will receive a large and profitable haul on new traffic. "WORLD'S BIGGEST WARSHIP. Being Built for the U. S. North Dakota to Be Queen. At the momeat the guns of Admiral Et ans' Pacific-bound fleet were roaring out their farewell salute at Fort Monroe the first keel plate of the great battleship North Dakota, the largest battleship in the world with the exception of her sisJer ship, the Delaware, was laid in the yards of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Mass. A fourth larger than the largest ship now in the American navy, the actual construction of the North Dakota may be said to have begun. Tie first plate laid was No. 10. There are twenty of these plates, each twenty-four feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds. As soon as the first plate was laid frames were attached to it. The contractor has three years in which to complete the building of the ship, but the officers of the ccmpany say they will be able to complete the North Dakota, provided the material is not delayed, so that it may be launched within ten months. JAPAN TO BUILD WARSHIPS. Naval Commander on Way to British Yards to Investigate Methods. Japan is to build its own warships, announced Commander J. Matsumura, who arrived in Victoria. B. C, the other day on his way to investigate methods at Rritish shipyards. He said a number of plants to tLat end were being established in" Japan ( but for the present building of warships was handicapped, practically stopped, because of the lack of money in Japan, but for the present building of some changes, some types being eliminated. He proposes to investigate some recent submarine types and swift scout ships built recently by England. On the same ship with JIatsumura was S. Sano, sent to Schenectady, N. Y., bythe Japanese government railway bureau to look into the manufacture of locomotives, with a view to the manufacture of engines in Japan for Japanese railroads. HAS LAW TO STOP BANK BUNS. New Statute Will Become Operative in Oklahoma Feb. 17, 1908. TT.e new banking law for Oklahoma, wh;rein is provided a guaranty fund for the protection of depositors in insolvent banks, will become operative Feb. 17, 190S. Its makers believe it will make impossible a. run on an individual bank and prevent a money panic in the State. Each State bank is required to pay to the S'.ate bonking board a sum equal to 1 per cent of Its daily average deposits. When a bank foils the State bank examiner pays the depositors from the guaranty funds held by the banking board, and these payments become a first lien on the assets of the defunct bank. The Senate has passed the amended prohibition bill and the "Jim Crow" bill defining a negro. PAPER TRUST TO BOOST PRICE. Buys Big Tract of Timber, but Finished Product Will Be Higher. Toe International Paper Company, it is announced, has practically closed the purchase of 530 square miles of timber land in New Brunswick, containing 330,000 acres of spruce timber. A. N. Burbank, president of the paper company, stated thathe problem of securing spruce woctl for pulp haf. become a serious one, and that as' a result the price of print paper has increased. Spruce wood, it is said, is now quoted at $10 a cord, while sales have been made at figures as high as f. 14 a cord. In some quarters it is predic.'l that the price of print paper in lfOS will be at least 20 per cent above t'ie price that has prevailed during VJ01. TRIES FOUR TIMES TO DIE. Young Hotel Guest Fights Rescuers, Who Save ECim from Gas. A young man who registered at a leading hotel in Kansas City Saturday as Robert Patterson of Philadelphia, and who told several guests that he was the son of a millionaire manufacturer, attempted suicide with gas. He fought tboso who tried to remove him from bis room, and after being taken to police headquarters made three attempts to hang limself. lie finally was taken to the Emergency hospital. It is said he will recover. , Another Murder and Suicide. New York police are trying to solve a mystery connected with a murder and suicide in Brooklyn. Bernard E. Wallace killed Elsie Ferlin while driving with her in a cab and then committed suicide. The girl was a telegraph operator. Shows Larger Grain Shortage. Government final crop report shows a shortage of several hundred millions of bushels in the principal cereals, but that the aggregate value on the farms is much higher than last year. Chicago Bank Collapses. The private bank of August Sahen & Co. in Chicago collapsed through the c.isarp 'L ranee of its cashier and $0-5,000 cf it. iurds. revealing a pathetic story of a n.an's tr.ist in his adopted son. Killed by Mine Explosion. Two hundred and fifty men were kiMed by an explosion of gas in the Darr mine of the Pittsburg Coal Company, at Jacobs Creek, Pa. Fight on Floor of House. Representatives Williams and De Armond engaged in a fist fight on the floor of the House and both drew blood. English Scientist Dies. Lord Kelvin, the noted scientist and inventor, died at an advanced age at Glasgow, Scotia Eid. Creator of Fashions Dies. M. Paquin, the famous dressmaker, who since the death of Wor.th has fashion! gowns for the aristocracy of Europe and the wealth of America, died at his home in Pari.-?. , He was known all over ihe world as a designer who set the fashions for the courts of Europe and for Newport and New York. Aldermen Re-Elect Ahearn. In defiance of Go?. Hughes the New York board of aldermen re-elected John F. Ahearn president ,of theBorough of Manhattan, from which office he wan recently removed by the Governor.

MAN WITH SEWED HEART LIVE;

Bests Pneumonia, Slit in Pericardium and Sawing of Three Ribs. . After surviving an operation in wh$h four stitches were taken in hi heart, William Johnson developed pleuro-pneu-monia at Roosevelt hospital in New York, rnd is now again convalescing. Johnson was taken to the hospital suffering from an injury which was at once diagnosed as a stab wound of the heart. An incision was made in his side, three of his ribs were cut through, forming a trap door, with tho cartilage attaching the ribs to the breastbone acting as a hinge. The trap was lowered and it was found that the diagnosis was correct and that there was a half-inch slit in the pericardium. This was carefully sewed and the trap door was replaced. The next morning Johnson complained of pains in the lungs and pneumonia rapidly developed. Hie doctors, proud of the operation ou the heart, fought for the man's life and, although at one time death seemed certain, it is now announced that Johnson is on the road to recovery and will survive. U. S. ACQUIRES 2,600 ISLANDS. New Survey Doubles Number on Spanish Charts. When Uncle Sam acquired the Philippine Islands h learned from the Spanish charts that tbfl-e were alout 1,200 of them. After a few ships had punctured holes in their bottoms in water which, according to charts, was deep, the question of making charts was taken up by the United States coast and geodetic survey and the result to .T te has been to arouse grave djstrust of the Spanish guides to navigation. Dr. C. E. Yeagle, who has been attached as surgeon to the coast survey steamer Fathomer for the last two years, arrived in San Francisco from the Orient on the liner China. Dr. Yeagle says that the American survey, which will not be completed for ten years, already shows there are 2,000 islands in the archipelago. The American surveyors found the Spanish charts full of remarkable inaccuracies. The United States steamers Fathomer, Pathfinder, Research, Marinduque and I!6mblou are now engaged in the work of charting Philippine waters. HURLED FROM AUTO TO DEATH. Paymaster of Department of Gulf Is Killed in Accident. Major Manly R. Curry, paymaster of the department of the gulf, was killed by being thrown from an automobile while on his way to the Terminal station in Atlanta, Ga., to catch a train for Macon. Major Curry had been visiting in the home of Dr. William Carnes and was being driven to the station by the doctor. When the machine reached the end of th Washington street viaduct Dr. Carnes foiled to turn in time to avoid a collision with a railing. The shock threw Major Curry to the street. He was quickly moved to a hospital, but died an hour later from concussion of the brain. Dr. Crrnes escaped injury. Major Curry was a son-in-law of United States Senator Bacon. SHORTENS BA::K FORGER'S TERM Gov. Hoch Commutes to Five Years Sentence Against Es-Cashier. Gov. Hoch of Kansas has commuted to five years the sentence of J. E. Marc 11, the Highland. Kan., banker, in prison for forgery under indeterminate sentence. This includes the time served in jail tmd time off for good behavior, making the actual time only four; years and one, month. Marcell will go free Feb. 'S. For three years Marcell, as cashier of the Highland back, sent to city Lanks forged notes, warehouse receipts and mortgages, as col la t era' for cash loans. The banks accepted iifarly $400,000 in this paper and lent ft:rcell $200,000 on it. His forgeries wrecked the bank and took the money not only of the directors and neighltors, who had trusted him, but of his relatives as well. SUPPLIES MOUTH, KOOF AND LIP. Surgeon Also Adds Pi late in Case of Five-Year-Old Bertha Stublow. When Bertha Stublow was born five 3ears ago she was without an upper lip, a roof to her mouth or a palate. To-day she is almost perfect in all three. Thü is the result .of a remarkable surgical feat. The man who did the work iä M. Meyer, D. D. S., oral surgeon to the North Pacific College of Dentistry, Portland, Ore. The operation was begun five years ago and completed the other day. The patient is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. tublow of Sumner, Wash. DIVORCEE RE WEDS; IS SLAIN. Former Husband Follows Woman to New Homo and Kills Her. Temporarily insane from jealousy, T. II. Look followed his recently 'divorced wife and her new husband from their former home in Colorado, nearly 1,000 miles, to Marietta, S. D., with what their friends believe was a firm determination to get her tack or kill her. He accomplished his purpose, murdering his wite by shooting her through the head. Thm he ended his own life by sending a bullet through his brain. DR. WALD EXONERATED. Jury Decides Surgeon Is Not Responsible for Girl's Death. Dr. O. E. Wald of the Lake View hospital in Chicago was exonerated from all blame for the death of Emma Mildred Hanson, who died at the hospital Aug. 1), following aa operation performed under the direction of Dr. Wald. The jury found that the girl came to her death from em!olism and hemorrhage caused by the bursting of an inne$- jugular vein, and that due care and precaution was exercised in the operation. Will Not Cut Wages. The finance committee of the United States Steel Corporation has decided to send out notices recalling the recent order to cut wages. These reductions were in some instances to amount to ier cont, while the average was to lo considerably more than 10 per cent. These orders were to have taken effect Jan. 1, 11)08. Glycerin Explosion Shakes Town. Six hundred quarts of nitroglycerin in the Dupont powder works, two and a half miles from I'owling Green, Ohio, exploded. It is rot believed there was loss of life, as the employes had left the premises. Six men employed in the powder house narrowly escaped injury. Point for Sunday Closers. Oppoucnrs of Sunday saloons scored a victory when Municipal Judge Heap of Chicago held the Slate law to be supreme in the prosecution of saloon men for keeping oiK-n on Sunday. Surgical Cure for Insanity. Dr. N. M. Owensby of Baltimore, after experiments, believes he has found in surgery a cure for a form of insanity called dementia praecox which heretofore has leen believed to be 80 per cent incurable. Woman Blown to Fragments. Mrs. Charles Talsk was blown to pieces in Pittsburg by an explosion of natural gas in her home. Her six children were injured, all being thrown from their beds upstairs when the house was wrecked by the explosion. Mrs. Talsk's striking a match caused the catastrophe.

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A rent roll In London netting $2.500,000 a year and other property valued at $5,000,000 are r.t stake in the sensational case before the P.ritish courts, brought to decide whether the fifth Duke of Portland aul a double personality and posed as T. C. Druce, owner of a great mercantile house. If the duke was Druce, then the rightful claimant to the Portland title and estates is Druee's present grandson, George II. Druce, while if be wasn't, the present holder, the duke's cousin, is safe in the Portland mansion. The case, which is the most astonishing of all claims to English peerages, involves the ownership of the Duke of Portland's estates and differs from the TIchborne case, which excited the country so greatly thirty years ago. in the fact that it rests upon one alleged fact, which could be determined in an hour. v The claimants, descendants of T. C. Druce, owner of the Baker Street Bazaar in London, insist that Druce in reality was the fifth Duke of Portland, who died in 1S7S. The duke was a verj eccentric ierson, who lived the life of a recluse and was not often seen by members of his own household. One of hi vagaries was to build subterranean apartments underneath his country house. On-thesc he spent no less than If 15.000,000, and fitted them tip most gorgeously. From them, it is said, a passage runs underground to the Baker Street Bazaar; and, if that is so, some color is lent to the Druce contention. However, the main feature of the claim Is that Druee's reported death in 1SC4 was not cjenth at nil, but only the means chosen by the duke to get rid of his double personality. The claimant charges that th,e Druce coffin was filled with lead, and then buried with honors and a tombstone erected with Druee's name upon It. But now mark the strange character of British justice. The courts will not permit the Druce coffin to be exhumed and examined, though that would settle the matter one way or the other for good and all. If lead was found within it, the Druce claimant would be sustained. If human remains were found, tfye Duke of Portland would be made secure in his property. Yet this effective method of ending the whole dispute cannot be undertaken, for the courts will not allow it.

"GOOD-BY, BOB: TAKE Chicago Inter Ocean. KILLING THE LOBSTERS. Th Shell Pish In New York Waters Being Exterminated. Iobster fishing is rapidly disappearing; as one of the novel industries of New York City and those accustomed to 'eat that species of shell fish will soon be deprived of that pleasure. For years the lobster fishermen who set their pots in the upper and lower bay had headquarters in Stapleton, S. I., and there it was possible to obtain at all seasons of the year the choicest grade of food for 15 eents a pound or about half the price charged by the average Manhattan retailer. At that price the fishermen had what they considered excellent returns for their work. Until about a year ago a catch of between 200 and S00 iwunds of lobster a day was considered an average haul, and that netted the bayanan and his boy helper between $o0 anS $45 for their short day's labor. In recent months, however, the catches have been decidedly small, and the fishermen believe that within another year a Now York lobster will be a rarity. The daily catches now average fifteen jtounds, and when one man's pots yield twenty-live pounds he considers himself fortunate. One by one the men who have ient the greater part of their lives In the business are abandoning the work and seeking new means of earning a livlihood. The pouring of acids and refuse into the Uiy, thereby poisoning its waters, Is killing the lobster and also other kinds of fish. JnBU ranee Compnnlei Itarred. Three of the largest insurance companies doing business in California have been denied certificates to continue by Commissioner Wolf, namely, the Palatine of London, Commercial of London, and the Williamsburg of New York, which would not submit to suits against them for losses sustained in the earthquake fire, but insisted upon taking the cases into the federal courts. Three daughters and one son of Samuel W. Carpenter of Allegheny, Pa., have eloped in a year.

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KE'ER YOURSELF." 3Ienlug;It I Serum a Sucres. A report made to the New York Acadeni.' of Medicine, and which is attracting much interest among physicians, indicates that a serum, which was discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Pathological Institute, for the treatment of meningitis, or "spotted fever," produced the unprecedented record of cures in 72.3 per cent of the total number of cases treated. An interesting feature was the sudden termination of the disease, generally within forty-eight hours after the injection of the serum. The cases reported were treated in various parts of the country. ('hlcnKo'rt Woman Cop. Chief of Police Shippy of Chicago has grr.nted a sitec-ial iolice permit to Miss Dorothy Stewart, aged 22. This allows her to wear the multi-pointed star of the special police force and invests her with alt the authoiity of the male policeman. She will be detailed in full uniform at the Auditorium Theater to supervise the safety and comfort of the women and children. SHORT NEWS NOTES. St. Christopher is the patron saint of motoring. Brazil has no middle class. There are but two classes there the rich and the Ioor. ' Countess of Warwick, on return to London, says America's only Mope is in socialism. The grand jury at Oakland, Cal., refused to vote an indictment against Harry Kleinschmidt, accused of murdering his friend, Frank Bellows, and the young man was released. Warlike preparations have been made by the people of llopkinsville, Ky., to prevtnt "night riders" from burning two tobacco factories, which they failed to destroy on their recent visit. The establish ment of the William Budd Furniture Company, in Petersburg, Va was burned the other day. Loss $75,000, partially covered by insurance. Allan Corey, son of William Ellis Corey, who broke with his father when the latter married, Mabelle Gilman, has become reconciled with the steel king and his stepmother of-a few months. For the first time in the history of New York county a man has been convicted for attempted murder. He is Pietor (Jiannone, a photographer.- He was charged with hiring Bruno Cardea to kill Luigi Fa rata, that he might wed Favata's wife. Favata was wounded, but recovered.

S WORK OF i CONGRESS

Senator Tillman's speech was the chief subject of interest of the Senate sessioa Monday. Senator Culberson introduced a resolution calling for a congressional investigation of the present financial stringency, but it was allowed to go over. Oklahoma's new Senators were sworn in and a number of bills were introduced. Speaker Cannon announced the appointment of the committee on appropriations. Mcst of the time was taken up with the introduction of bills. Announcement of the appointment of the various committees was made at the opening of the Senate session Tuesday. Senator Neulands of Nevada spoke for wo hours on his bill providing for the appointment of an inland waterways com mission and for the improvement of the inland waterways of the country. The resolution of Senator Dick of Ohio extending the time allowed to the various Ftate militia organizations to make the changes necessary in order that they may take advantage of government appropriations were adopted. Senator Culberson's resolution for an investigation of the present financial stringency was allowed to lie ou the table. The House was not in session. Resolutions were introduced in the. Senate Wednesday by Senator Tillman' asking the interstate commerce commission to report whether any corporation engaged in interstate commerce was the owner of the stcJv of any other corporation transporting passengers and freight and calling upon the interstate commerce commission to define the authority of the federal government and of the States in respect to the control of the liquor traffic th rough the operation of the interstate commerce law. Senator Culberson spoke on his resolution calling on the committee on finance to investigate and report uion the cause of the present financial stringency. The resolution was referred to the committee on finance. The House was not in session. The Senate was not in session Thursday. Prime interest in the session of the llouse centered in the announcement br Speaker Cannon of the appointment of the various committees. Many bdls of imiortance were introduced. An unsuccessful effort was made to block the erection of the statue to Gen. Grant at the expense of a number of historic trees. Adjournment was taken until Saturday. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Frederick II. Magdeburg to be pension agent at Milwaukee. ; Representative Ansberry of Ohio introduced a bill providing for the survey of a ship canal to connect Toledo and Chicago. A bill making it a felony for a national brnk or any of its ofiicers to speculate with the funds of te bank was introduced by Representative De Armond of Missouri. The commissioner of Indian affairs, in his annual report, urged that laws be passed giving the more progressive Indians greater freedom in the management of their affairs. Secretary Metcalf sent a letter of reproof to Justice Delacy of the Juvenile Court, who recently discharged a boy accused of theft on condition that he enlist in the navy. The Ohlson-Mahoney Lumber Company of San Francisco was the lowest bidder ou 0,000,000 feet of lumber for the Isthmian canal commission, offering to deliver it for $124,372. - Representative Perkins of New York reintroduced his inheritance tax bill so amended that one-half of the tax collected should go to the State and the other to the government. Word was received from Pensacola, Fla., that Senator Mallory, who is seriously ill .there, would not be a candidate for re-election, and planned to retire from public life on account of his health. Robert L. Owen and Thomas P. (Jure, the two new Senators from Oklahoma, were sworn in the other daj Senator Owen, by lot, secured the six-j-ear term, and Senator Gore the two-year term. Oct. 12 will be a national holiday. l:nowvn as "Discovery day," in honor of the discovery of America Oct. 12, 1402, if a bill Introduced in the House of Representative Goulden of New York becomes a law. Representative Burgess of Texas introduced a resolution calling for the appointment by the President of a banking and currency commission to hold public hearings in New York, Chicago and other large cities. Representative McKinley of Illinois introduced a bill appropriating $30,000 a year for each of the land grant colleges maintaining schools of engineering, in addition to the $55,000 annually now given to the agricultural experiment stations. A resolution charging the Secretary of Agriculture with inaccuracy in estimating this year's cotton crop, and calling on him to furnish to Congress "the figures and the information upon which he based his estimate," was introduced in the House. A bill creating in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau of translortation totake off the shoulders of the interstate commerce commission all save the larger matters requiring the exercise of the judicial function was introduced by Representative Stevens of Minnesota, . Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi introduced the old Blaine bill to admit into all ports of the United States free of duty all products of the American hemisphere upon which no export duties are imposed, whenever such nation shall admit to its ports free certain United Stated products. IVltsburg had a $100,000 fire. Graff & Co., stove manufacturers; John blockier. & Co., rope dealers; Seeley & Leard, wholesale hat dealers, and II. W. Johns, dealer in railway supplies, were the principal losers. ' A negro member of a traveling minstrel troupe, who gave his name as Holier Rogers, was hanged by a mob near Shreveport, La., and his body riddled with bullets. This is the third lynching in Morehouse parish in ten clays. Rogers is said to have resented a white man's remark that he was a "Yankee nigger." Prof. C. Ilebein, a Chicago lawyer, committed suicide by footing himself in a room at the Quincy house, Boston. He was despondent over ill health. Ilobein was 35 years old and unmarried. He left the Alexian Brothers' hospital. Chicago, three weeks ago. The maniliite of the Supreme Court of Texas, in accordance Vith its announced decision that it -has jurisdiction in the Waters-Pierce Oil Company rr-ceivership contest, has been issued. An appeal from the Appellate Court on the main ouster case is to be heard. No action was taken on the appointment of a receiver as suggested by the Attorney General. Harrison Clark died on the scaffold at tin State penitentiary, Lincoln Neb., for the murder of Conductor Edward Fleury at South Omaha. Noah Fulton, a negro, was hanged in Richmond, Va., for the murder of John Johnson.

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PENNSYLVANIA MINE Terrible Explosion Imprisons AH the Men Working in Coal Shaft Near Connellsville. FIRE ADDS TO AWFUL HORROR. Darr Workings, Owned by Pittsburg Coal Company, the Scene of Latest Slaughter of Miners. Two hundred miners were entombed in the Darr mines of the Pittsburg Coal Company at Jacobs Creek, on the Youghiogheny River, eighteen miles west of Connellsville, Pa. Of the victims fully 100 are Americans, the others being principally Hungarians. A terrific explosion shook the vicinity of the mine Thursday morning and announced to all the surrounding country that a great disaster had occurred under the surface. Smoke soon bfgan to issue in heavy columns from the mine, which is of the slope variety. The mouth of the mine was wrecked, and this, together with the fire -which was discovered ' raging inside, prevented any attempt to rescue the imprisoned men. There was nothing to Indicate whether it was gas or coal dust that exploded. '. Within a few minutes after the explosion the mouth of the pit was surrounded by the relatives and friends of the entombed men. Smoke and flames issuing from the slope made it impossible to enter and the wives and children were frantic. The scene of the explosion is on the Tittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad side of the Youghiogheny River. "Jacobs Creek, on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, is across the river. It is forty miles east of Tittsburg and eighteen miles west of Connellsville. v The officials of the Tittsburg Coal Company stated that the mine was cue of the largest and was equipped with the most modern appliances for mining The Pittsburg Coal Company mines are on both sides of the Youghiogheny River. The fuel mined In this field is used for coking purposes. The territory is a part of the original Connellsville coke field and the mines are said to contain considerable gas. THIRD HORROR IN A FORTNIGHT MonoBKah(W, V., and. Yolande DI aster Cost Lives ot Hundreds. The Connellsville mine horror is the third to shock the nation within the last fortnight. An explosion In mines Nos. C and 8 of the Consolidation Coal Company at Monongan, W. Va., wrecked the interior of the mine and caused a loss of life at first estimated at 500, but since found to have been less than 400. Not all the bodies of men trapped in subterranean passages have been removed even yet. At last accounts 33G had been found. This disaster brought desolation to the whole city of Monongah and the surrounding region and destitution and even disease have resulted. The State authorities and others have taken measures to Investigate the causes rigidly and to seek greater safety for the workers. The other serious accident occurred in the Yolande coal mine, near Birmingham, Ala. The latest reports from the scene of this horror, published yesterday, show fifty-nine bodies found and twenty-two men listed a still missing. W. R. Boggs, an American, was slain by Mexican laborers who demanded their wages. Two bombs were found beneath the box of King Carlos of Portugal in the Royal Theater of Lisbon. Brigands tortured Marquis Cito of Naples and forced his wife to write a check for $20,000 for his ransom. In the effort to gain the mastery of the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign shipping line out of the China trade. Thousands of native troops who attacked the French forces on the Algerian frontier were driven back into Morocco. A steamer went on the rocks of the Nova Scotia shore in a blinding storm, but the G00 persons aboard were taken off. Oscar Erbsloeh was forced by German authorities to pay duty of $U0 on the James Gordon Bennett Cup he won in the balloon race. 1 The death sentence of Prof. Karl Hau, convicted of murder in Germany, was commuted to life imprisonment. Empress Alexandra of Russia became so ill that special consultation of court physicians was deemed ne(i."ssary. Nfcholas Tschailtpvsky, known as the founder of the first revolutionary circle at St. Petersburg, and Mme. Breshkovskaya, one of the first aristocratic converts to the terrorist program, both of whom have many friends in America, have been arrested and thrown into the Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul at the Russian capital. Finance Minister KoHovsoff, in announcing the budget in the Duma, Tuesday, said that it would be necessary to get $93,000,000 on credit to meet the extiaordinary expenses. Recent conferences between the American embassador at Tokio, O'Brien, and Foreign Minister Ilyashi, have resulted in a satisfactory settlement of the limitation of Japanese immigration to the United States. It was agreed that only students and commercial men should be allowed to come, and that the going of laborers should be prevented by the Japanese authorities. Similar assurances were given to the representatives of Canada. Recent reports from South Africa were to the effect that the Cape Government was arming in the expectation of another uprising of the native Zulus, whose leader, Dinizulu, was defying arrest in Natal for certain murders in connection with the rising last year. Now it appear that Diaizulu has surrendered to the authorities and has demanded a trial. Herr Lange, a well-known translator, predicted a famine in white paper an urged America to look to the preservation of her forests. Rio Janeiro received news of a Brazilien filibuster promoted in New York by American capital. Offenders captured in Rio may be executed.

CHICAGO. An improving tone appears in business ciicles, although actual recovery in activity is not looked for before a return to normal banking conditions is effected. Seasonable weather brought a heavier movement in the leading retail lines, and the absorption of necessaries and Christmas goods advanced to gratifying proportions, dealings generally reflecting a better disposition among buyers. Wholesale branches mainly enter upon the usual quiet attending the close of the year, but there was a fair nggn gate of demands for immediate delivery and satisfactory mail orders were received l'cr spring merchandise. Mercantile collections show more promptness at western points, although extensions are not infrequently asked, particularly where tlje shortage of currency yet remains severe. Defaults in this district again include none of siecial significance, and the number this month thus far is less thaua year ag. Requests for accommoiLition in January increases and .current settlements at the banks involve some renewals, but the financial exhibit required of borrowers discloses little disturbing weakness among manufacturers and distributers, and this creates a more confident feeling as a basis for future financing. Money remains quoted at 7 per cent minimum on local loans- required for forwarding of foodstuffs, but higher rates are made for commercial pajer bought by outside banks. Augmentation of gold reserves and note circulation strengthens the situation and permits an expandinf shipment of currencj to the interior. There is no decline in outputs of rails, wire and footwear, and there is better inquiry for pig iron, although some consumers hold for lower cost.V' Failures reported in the u'hicago district number 23, against lb last week and 2b a year ago. Those with liabiflVA over tr iiia . l rr . w , . w,uw iiuujr , ugainsi. t jast wee a. 3 in l'jcXi. Iun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Holiday buying has had the center of the stage, and retail business has felt very perceptibly the influence of the spirit of the season. While much more marked than some time ago, however, the voluroeef retail buying as a whole is not up to expectations, and is certainly well below a year ago at this date, bentiment as to the outlook for trade next year is very mixed. Conditions in financial circles are still slowly but quite surely approaching normal. From the country at large there is reported a continued easing up of the situation as regards rush payments, and several cities are practically on a cub basis. A very favorable feature in the present period of repression is the tendency toward enlargement of ot export trade. This is most notable in the grain trade. Business failures for tjie week ending Dec. 19 number 208, against 2S4 last week, 227 in the like week of 1000, 235 in 1905, 2t'J in 1904 and 213 in 1903. Can? dian failures for the week number I 40, as against 0 last week and 20 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $J.00 to $0.10; hogs, prime -eavy, ?4.0f to $4.r5; sheep, fair to choice, $3) to $4.23; wheat, No. 2, fSc to $1.1W; corn, No. 2, iSc to 59c; oats, standard, ,40c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 70c to S2c; hay, timothy, $11.00 to $1S.00; prairie, $9.W to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 27c; potatoes, per bushel, 4Sc to 5Gc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, good to choice heavy, $J.0O to 54.1X); sheep, common to prime, $.3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 95c to 07c; corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 5Tc; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 52c. St. Louis Cattle, $4-50 to $d.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.00,; sheep. $3.00 to $.'.tH); wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn. No. 2, 53c to 55c; oats. No. 2, 4 Sc to 50c; rje. No. 2, 75c to 70c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.10; hogs, $4.00 to $1.50; sheep. $3.00 to 54.50; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; rye. No. 2, VM to 81c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, 1.00 to $4.40; sheep. $2-50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.02; corn. No. 3 yellow, 00c to Glc; oats, No. 3 white, nSc to 54c ; rye. No. 2, SOc to S2c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1. OS to $1.10; corn. No. 3, 59c to (JOe; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 1, .SOc to Sic; barley, No. 2, 00c to 97c; pork, mess, $12.52. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to choice, $3-50 to $4.C0; sheep, common to good mird, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. . New York Cattle, $4.00 to $."..r.O; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00 ; wheat, No. red. $1.05 to $1.0; corn. No. 2, 00c to 07c; oats, natural white, 57c to 59c; butter, creamery, 25c to !c; eggs, western. 27c to 31c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, Wc to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed. 50c to 01 cj oats. No. 2 mixed; 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 79c to Sic ; clover seed, prime, $9.70. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Thomas W. Lawson has been ele'.ied president of the Bay State Gas Conipury of Delaware. The chief of staff of the army ha? recommended the construction of officers quarters at the army war college in Washington at an exiense of $100.000. It is reported that Heinrich Conreid of the Metropolitan opera bouse in New York has. had trouble with the directors of the company and will retire at the end pi the present season. Fire in a stable in East Ninth street. New York City, spread to an adjoining building, causing the death of one man and injury to another man and a woman who were overcome by smoke. Nine horses in the stable are supposed to have been burned. Dr. William F. Boos of Doston issued a statement that he found in the body of William Farnsworth Baker, the Boston young man who died under suspicious circumstances' in Bagota, N. J., more than enough arsenic to kill several strong, healthy men. It was also stated that the embalming fluid used in preparing the bodyrfor burial contained no arsenic. The organization of a Hughes club, with Senator Burkett as the aspirant for the vice presidency, was begun in Lincoln. Neb. The delegation has lecn practically pledged to Taft, but the ILighca and La Follette men will make a contest. Fire completely destroyed the plant of the Pfau Manufacturing Company at &2S538 Reading road, Cincinnati. The company manufactured plumbers' supplies. The fire caused a panic iu a large tenement building which adjoined the factory. Policemen, herded by Night Chief Corbia, carried several babies from the building, passing through dense smoke in performing the rescue work. The loss will ! $150,000, with 75 per cent insurance.

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