KISS ETHTL'5 Di-ETJT.
All Parts of the Country Represented
at White' House B1L
Miss Klhel Roosevelt, daughter of
the President, v.:,! formally presented
to socles Mondnv, night at a small
dance given la the historic east room
f the White House. Id this tame room
her half Bister, Mra. Alice Roosevelt
Lon (worth, made bcr debut on the
right ( January 3, 11)02.
This auspicious event, which has
teea ao eagerly anticipated by society,
was attended by COO debutante and
beaux of the season, guests being pres
ent from every section of the country.
Only one member of a family was la
rked and Invariably the youngest cue.
Ho married people were present sare
the matrons of MIm Roosevelt Imme
diate family.
At 10 o'clock Miss Roosevelt bok
her place la the blue room beside her
other aad received her guests. She
looked very girlish and handsome,
gowned Is sort white satin trimmed
with crystsla. Her hair was la an
effective coiffure and caught through
the tawny brawn tresses was a narrow
Grecian fillet. Mrs. Roosevelt was
gowned la dark blue natln. The room
was tastefully deoorsted with palms
and &Jt flowers.
A notaole feature of the evening was
the number of Harvard and other col
lege students present. Besides the col
lege boys, unmarried attaches of for
eign legations and army officers in
their gay uniforms made up the bulk
f the male contingent
Among the onlookers were Mrs. Wil
liam Sheffield Oowlea, Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, sisters of the President ;
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Lengwortb, Mrs. J. Kllen Roosevelt,
the entire Kean family, Mrs. Nat Slra
klns, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. Charles
A. Munn, Mrs. Richard Wayne Parker
aad Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. Presi
dent Roosevelt viewed the dancing for
some time and; then returned to his
work. Miss Ethel's two brothers, The
odore and Kernilt Roosevelt, ' were
among the dancers.' N
PRESIDENT OF
-ATTACKED III STREET
Man Throws Arms About Fallleres
Neck and Tries to Pull
His Beard.
EOTALIST PLOT IS SCENTED.
Insult Generally Believed to Be Act
of Vainglorious Seeker After
Notoriety.
While Armand Fallleres, the Presi
dent of France, accompanied by M.
Ramoudou. his secretary, and Colonel
Lasson, military attache at the Elysee
palace, was taking a morning stroll
near the Rue de l'EtolJe In Paris, a
poorly clad Individual, who evidently
had been lying in wait, suddenly Jump
ed upon the President from behind and
threw hfs arms about M. Fallleres'
neck In an effort to seize his benrd.
Colonel Lasson and Secretary Ramon
dou sprang to the assistance of the
President dragged off his assailant and
turned him over to two special detec
tives who had been following the party
on bicycles. President Fnll lores' cane
was broken in the struggle, but beyond
a scratch on the ear he was not In
jured and Insisted on continuing his
walk.
As the detectives slipped the hand
cuffs on the roan he cried : "I am un
armed. I simply wanted to pull the
President's beard." At the station
TEASE OF WORLD FALLS OFF.
United States Not Alone with De
creased Exports and Imports.
The United States Is not alone In the
record of smaller Imports and smaller
exports thnt will characterise the his
tory of our foreign commorce In the
year 1908. Of the twenty-five principal
countries of the world all but four
show n falling off In exports, and near
ly two-thirds show a falling off In im
ports, f Every country with the excep
tion of Argentina, Spain, Greece and
Sweden show exports of 1003 below
those of 11)07.
It will thus t seen that the falling
off of approximately fnOO.OOO.OOO In im-
ports and perhaps $150,000,000 In ex
ports In the commerce of the United
States during 1008 is part of a general
' condition which prevailed the world
over. An analysis of our foreign com-
merce this year shows that the princi
pal decrease ea the Import sido oc-
curred in trade with Europe and on the
. export side In the trade with North
America.
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IBES1MCNT rAUJKKLB.
WITCHCRAFT AFFECT3 WILL.
Chlldraa TnUfr AgFl Father ffu
' laaaaaeed y atraaaro Bollef.
' Tbs will of Jacob Schonacker was set
.aside by a jury in Common Picas Court
In Norwalk, Ohio, for t'be reason that the
testator-was insane at the time the In
strument was drawn, In his elchty-third
. year. It is the first time in the history
of the county that a will has been brok
en. The will disposed of an estate val
ued at about $10,000. The balk of the
pioperty, two farms, was left to two
sons, Joseph and Frederick. One son
was cut off entirely; a daughter was be
qneathed 3 ; the cars of another son was
provided for, and five daughters were left
$400 each. The suit to break the will was
t Instituted by the daughter to whom $3
-was bequeathed. ' The children testified
that their father believed in witchcraft
and frequently complained, in his younj1
. er days, that be was under the spell pj
witches. Physicians were put upon the
stand to show that b?!ivf In witchcraft
I wis form of insanity, ,
house the President's assailant proved
to bo Jean Mattls, a cafe waiter, 24
years old and a native of the depart
ment of Savole. Medals of General
Mercler, the former Minister of War;
stamps bearing the hend of the Duke
of Orleans, a card of membership la
the Patrle Francaise nnd other Royal
ist documents were found on his per
son. During the examination Mattls
boasted of being a Royalist nnd talked
confusedly of having done his "duty"
and obeyed the dictates of his "con
science." Quantities of Royalist reac
tlonary literature were found by the
police when they ransacked his resl
dence.
The Investigation reveals the fact
that Mattls was In close relation with
.the Royalist organization, and this
gives color to rumors thnt he was the
instrument of a Royalist plot. Serious
evidence in this direction, however, is
lacking up to the present time.
raw
NATIONS.
President 2otl vclt A-7cs Canada and
Mexico to Aid i:i Conservation.
liiiniiinrcin.-nt liiis lrn imide at the
White IIoi!-'- ill Wiislin ctoii or a pro
posed plan fir n eoi.ference looking
toward the taniservntloii of the natu
ral resources of North America, to be
held St the White House Feb. IS next
Letters suctr'stlng the plan have
been addressed by President Roosevelt
to the Governor General nnd to the
Premier of Canada and to President
Diss of Mexico. They will be deliv
ered to the ofilclnls In person by Glf-
ford Plnchot. chairman of the Nation
al Conservation Commission and chief
forester of the United States whom
President Roonevelt has chosen as his
personal representative to convey the
Invitations and to confer with the au
thorities of the two governments. Mr.
Flnchot first will visit Canada. He then
will carry tho Invitation to President
Diaz at the City of Mexico.
The proposed North American confer
ence Is the outgrowth of the two con
serration conferences held In Washing
ton, In which the governors of the
States and Territories were the princi
pal conferees. The representatives des
ignated by the Canadian and Mexican
governments will, under the proposed
plan, consult with representatives of
the State and other departments of
this government nnd with the National
Conservation Commission. The main
object of the eoiiforenee, as announced,
will be to point out that natural re
sources are not limited by the bound
ary lines which separate nations, to de
velop a better knowledge of the natural
resources of each nation on the part of
the others, and to Invite suggestions
for concurrent action for the protection
of mutual interests related to conser
vation.
WORLD'S GREATEST DISASTER
ALLITALY STUNNED BY
EXTENT OF
Province of Calabria Scene of Aw
ful Engulfing Seismic Disturbance.
MANY THOUSANDS MEET DEATH
WILL GIVE UP CUBA JAN 28.
Provisional Government of Island to
Terminate on That Bate.
: Answering Governor Magoon's re
quest for authority to convene the
Cuban Congress and give formal pos
session to tho Cuban government on
Jan. 28, the following was received
the other day from WaslUngton :
Magoon, Havana : Pursuant to in
structions from the Promdent, the Secre
tary of War directs:
1. That you asnemble the Cuban, con
gress on a convenient dnte, to be selected
by you, to act on the credentials of members-elect
of the hennte and House of
Representatives.
2. That, having passed on the creden
tials of members-elect nnd completed their
organization, they ns:emhle in joint ses
sion to canvass and deelnre the result of
the vote of the electoral college for Presi
dent and Vice President, and thereafter
be in recess until reassembled by you for
the purposes specified in the following
paragraphs :
3. That tlio terms of office of the
Sicily in Ruins and Entire Kingdom
Terrorised, Fearing- Greater
Disaster May Come.
One hundred and fifty tluflisnnd per
sons of n population of l,"."i0.C0 In the
Italian departments of Calabria and
Sicily devastated by the earthquake
one in every twelve inhabitants are
dead in tho most disastrous catastrophe
of modern times, In which Uegx'o, a
city of 50,000, vanished from the face
of the eurtb, leaving but live mad sur
vivors. Another city was almost en
tirely washed Into the sea and the
whole fuce of a nation was chuuged in
the space of thirty-two seconds. Tho
measure of havoc cannot accurately be
estimated. No accurate figures on the
death list are obtainable, but apparent
ly reliable estimates place the fatalities
as high as 1. ",0,000. ,The calamity Is
the greatest In the history of the
world.
From several towns near the
center of the disturbance no word
rame, and there seemed reason
lo fear that there ure no survivors to
describe their fate. The destruction of
FIRST AID TO THE STRICKEN.
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Chicago Tribune.
violence of the (shock scents to have
been unprecedented except by volcanic
eruptions within a limited area. The
buildings of Messimi were not merely
shaken down their foundations liter
ally were yanked from beneath thein
to one side or to the other, until they
toppled from the perpendicular and
fell lo ruins alongside their original
bites. That was the experience of Mes
sina. That of Regglo, on the opposite
side of the strait, must have been more
violent for scarcely ono stone remains
on another in thnt once flourishing
city.
Chaotic Rock Ilrplnce City.
Warships ordered to relieve the Biir
vlvors were unable to approach the
const, owing to the changed configura
tion of the straits of Messina. Ulti
mately a torpedo boat ran close to the
coat-t, but was unable to discover a
trace of the city. Where a few days
before stood the homes and works of
men and busy strets there was found
nothing but chaotic rocks and earth.
The city had vanished as completely
ns Aladdin's palace under the magi
cian's spell. Observations Indicate that
Rcgglo was completely swallowed by
the earth's collapsing beneath It and
the yawning Bite was filled by the sea
which advanced In a huge wave there,
ns nt Messina. Only five of the city's
fiO.OOO inhabitants have been account
ed for. These unhappy wretches reach
ed Cnttanzaro and . Talml half de
mented by fright One of these was
TOWNS WRECKED BY THE QUAXB
The towns In Sicily nnd southern
Italy reported wrecked by the earth
quake are as follows :
Messina, Sicily Population, 1D0.0O0;
wrecked by earthquake and swept by
tidal wave; loss ef life enormous.
Catania Third largest town In Sicily,
in ruins.
Paterno, Sicily Ten miles northwest
of Catania, 15,000; a heap of smoldering
ruins.
Vlttoria, Sicily Town of 17,000, od
the Camarine river? wrecked.
Naro, Sicily Population, 11,000; half
deatioyed.
All Fifteen miles southwest of Mes
sina, one of the most ancient towns In
Island; population, 2,000; badly dam
aged. Mlneo, Sicily Ninety-six miles north
west of Catania; badly damnged.
Pattl On the north const of Sicily ;
wrecked.
Castoreal Population, 7,000; twelve
miles southwest of Milazzo; badly
wrecked.
Pa 1ml, Calabria On the sonthwest
coast; population, 11,00; In ruins.
Reggio, Calabria Population, 4,.r00;
across the Strait of Messina from the
city of Messina ; reported completely de
stroyed. Scilla, Calabria' Reported destroyed.
Bagnara Sixteen miles northeast of
Reggio; populution, 7,000; reported wiped
out
an army officer who telegraphed
Home that the city lind been entirely
destroyed and that the dead were num
berless. The ministry of marine at Rome re
ceived wireless reports of the obstruc
tion of the strait of Messina, showing
Its safe navigation to be Impossible
until It Is recharted, whije Its future
navigation is likely to be extremely
difficult The tidal wave wrecked the
lighthouses in the strait, Including
Faro beacon, and they crashed Into the
sea. The news caused a deep impres
sion in Rome, for its N consequences
from commercial and military points
of vlew will be Incalculable,
Other towns nnd villages on both
sides of the strait of Messina have
been leveled to the ground and nothing
to
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TYPICAL ITALIAN CITY AND MAP OF EARTHQUAKE REGION WHERE THOUSANDS MET AWFUL DEATH.
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was SENDS,
or
PASTOB ttlDh tiFB WITH RA.Z0B
ioaeli,'r"'ws Mlalatos
Dead la Apartmeata. '
' Failing to arrive at ehurek where his
" congregation bad assembled for worship,.
a searching party wajlermea to searca
for Uev. Robert C. Dougherty pastor of
.the Congregational church at Buchanan,
K. D. Visiting his apartments over tbs
. Buchanan State Bank, the minister was.
found lying In a pool of blood, with the
razor with which he had cut his throat
' grlppod in his band. A' rambling note
was found on a table. This note was evi
dently written Dec. 23, on which day ha
. borrowed a revolver from a neighbor, but
his courage failed him then. Mr. Dough-
.' orty was formerly in Kansas City.
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of Cuba shall begin on the 28th of Janu fV- r V V V. A. $ , 1 '," v. - - V 1
ary, on which day they shall ba W - , v 'Wf- & r f? m I T
Inaugurated;- that congress rhall be as- feV .1 J ' ifrT i Jf; ' : ' ! 1 1 " J-vS??). gK i
sembled daring the forenoon of Jan. .S. j f.
10O0, the call therefor specifying the m ETJ:,rt f f -v. )"7T '.I TVt , L'f i5--Sli!S AY
Rial duty'of congrew to be the induct.on i$n 'J fAfcC
Into office of the President and the L. IV S' ? t il ? J 1 rPmm X -
President, and thereafter the-considera- i . - . Qr.S 5-
i
Wears Fas Coall Killed aa Bear.
Mistaking a drunken man, clad in a
long buffalo overcoat, for a bear, Thomas
Deckmar, a farmer, shot ' and killed
; Thomas Andrews near Lafayette, Teun.
Andrews had been in jail, but was pa
roled that be might go home. Instead,
he got drunk ami sat down to sleep in
a tioorway. '
CUBBEHT NEWS NOTES.
Cardinal Victor Luclao Sulpice Lecot
arohbumop of Bordeaux, died at Oham
bery, France.
Date culture in the ' Imperial vajlty,
California, is declared to be a success by
J. W. Jennings, an experimenter.
Justices of the Court of Special Ses
sions In New York sat almost all Bight
lo efforts to catch up on cases.
I Forty-two steam and thirteen sailing
vessels were uum in in united States
and officially cumbered during Nevsmber.
A special commiutlon from Porto Rico
la in Washington for the purpos of Indue
;lng CongrtM to Impoae a duty of S cants
,a pound ou foreign coffee, lbs principal
industry of tbs island.
A brldgs three miles la length will b
feullt by the Pennsylvania road ovtr 1111
Oate, from Port Morris, a suburb of Nw
York, to Long Island. Tbs center arch
will ba 1.000 feet long.
Tht Rev. John P. MeClokey, assistant
pastor of rha Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Toledo, In the pulpit anooune
od that bis days were numbered, accord
ing to doctors, but be would hbor to tht
jUst. ; . , .
No football game will be played be
tween Iowa and Minnesota next fall and
negotiations bave been practically ended,
as tbs Gophers insist that the game be
played at Minneapolis and Iowa insists
tt U be played at Iowa City or not at
all.
Alfredo De Oro of Cuba is the three
cushion billiard champion of the world,
having won the third block of the match
with Thomas A. Ilueston of St. Louis by
the score of DO to 33. The final score
for the three blocks game is, De Oro 150,
Ilueston 107.
Now that Do nm rest and some of the
other stars are out of amateur billiards,
owing to the showing up In Chicago, It
should be possible to arrange an unusu
ally interesting amateur tourney, for the
lesser players wifl have a chance now they
did not have before.
Negotiations are on to take the Cornell,
Tale and Harvard rowing crews to Seat
tle during the Alaska-Yukon-Paciftc ex
position next summer. It is planned to
bold at least one regatts on Lake Wash
ington each month during the exposition,
which t pens June l and closes Oct. 10.
The State board of control of high
school athletics will not decide on the
phice for the annual meet of the Iowa
blgh schools, but the different Institutions
will be given an opportunity to choose
the location of the big yearly event. Dea
Moines expects to capture the meet.
A fine row has been stirred up In base
ball circles by statements from Umpire
Klem and Johnstone that an attempt
was made to bribe them at the decidiug
game between New York and Chicago
at the New York Polo ground. Na
tional League officials are Inveutiguting
and prosecutions may follow.
Harry Pulllam was unanimously elect.
ed president of tbs National Baseball
League at the annual meeting of the as
sociation. John Heidler wu re-elected
to the secretaryship.
Freeport wants to stay in the Wiscon.
ain-Illinois League. A committee la now
busy in the Illinois city raising the dif
ference between $1,K) already subscrlb-
td and the total r..r00 deficit.
The crowds v attending football games
are increasing every year. An attendance
of 30.000 or more at big game Is not un
common this year. Tbt smaller college
games are drawiug proportionately arg
crowds.
tion of all matters within the Jurisdiction
of congress nt its regular sessions; that
the President bo inaugurated and the
provisional government terminated at 13
o'clock noon on said Jan. i!M, 15X10.
This means the complete approval of
the plan submitted by you.
EDWARDS.
GROSS-EAKNINGS TAZ IS LEGAL.
Minnesota Wins Casea Aaalnat Great
Northern and the Maple Leaf.
The State of Minnesota won a dorublt
victory in the Supreme Court in St. Paul
when that court, by Justice C. L. Brown,
filed opinions in its favor in vbotb tin
Chicago Great Western and the Great
Northern railways tax cases. The courl
upholds the validity of the law increasing
the railroad gross-earnings tax from 3 t
4 per cent, which the roads attacked nt
unconstitutional. Attorney General E. T.
Young personally fonpht the roads' con
tention that they could not be made t
pay a gross-earnings tax larger than thi
3 per cent, which was provided for in
their territorial charters. 'flie Great
Northern case nominally involves $120,.
737.38 for 1005 taxes. The Gre.it West
ern case Involved about $2.",0K). Th
amount at stake, however, is really mora
than f 150,000 a year to the State treas
ury, if the decision is sustained by tht
United Spates Supreme Court, to which
It will undoubtedly he appealed.
a' ?t
JALE-RMO- OK THE. KOCRTti eQAyT-Of
Jl typical. eoAyT ' tOwav
RIVALS FIGHT DUEL TO DEATH.
property could not be as great aa at
San Francisco, for Messina and Reg
gio, the two principal cities destroyed,
were not rich or mngulflcent from the
metropolitan point of vleyv. ,
Faee of Connlrr la Altered.
As a great cataclysm of nature, how-
' ever, this disaster is ou a far vaster
scale than the California phenomenon.
I The whole face of the country and the
I const line have been altered. Even
' Bcylla and Cliarybdls linve changed the
j positions they have occupied since
I Aenns' legendary voyage. The three
' provinces where the greatest damage
was done were Messlnn nnd Catania,
tilrl UeJeHa tlotb, t hnllena-a Follows
and One la Killed.
RcoaUss Julia Pico, ajjed 14, would ao
.. ..ft . . . , . l. V?,
cent neuner as ner nusnanu, i oweu ror
mlch and Michael Milanovitch fought I
duel with short knives In a darkened
room, in Cleveland. , Formlch was killed
after he had buried his kuife In tha
neck of his opponent. During the fray
ring about the contestants. - Repeatedly , P8 nd much damage
the girl for whom the men fonght at-1 wns done outside of these provinces,
tempted to Interfere. Not until thej . but within them tho devastation was
paused long enough to knock her sense- , so complete that scarcely u uuuinn
less did she desist In her attempts al , habitation remains
&m-mMnmwmmMmwm mat
In Sicily, and Reggio ill Calabria, on
the mainland. They comprise about
, 4,400 square miles. The rock of Cha
: rybdls now blocks the entrance to the
' Btrnlt of Messlnn. Several hundred
peacemaking. Both men loved the girl
Both proposed marriage to her. She re
-fused both, saying tluit the man she loved
was far away. Milanovitch supiioscd thai
Formicb was the lucky man and chnh
leased him to a duel. Milanovitch wa
taken to a hospital ufter he had beeq
barged with murder.
Upheaval Lasts 32 Seconds.
All accounts agree that the time oc
cupled by nature's gigantic spasms was
but thirty-two seconds. Some minutes
later a great wave completed the
havoc In the 111 fated coast towns. The
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M AT OP SJieiLY.AHD UOWEJS- ITLV. iiiOWlK(j
r
sei I
QGAhE IK 1906.THE. AMl
3Y ITALIAX. HILITI.,
but ruins are left to Indicate wbero
they formerly stood.
Messina 'Warned Often.
Messina experienced a similar dls-
nster in 1788. She had then the same
preliminary warnings during the pre
vlous four or five years that she had
recently In 15K)5 and 1007. Both Mes
sina and Reggio are on the seismic
line of contact or boundary between
the primary and secondary formations
which separate Mount Etna and Mount
Vesuvius. Jt Is a veritable storm cen
ter of earthquakes, yet Messina stayed
for this last lesson lu the light of mod
ern scientific knowledge. Messina prob
ably will not rise again from her ruins
and ashes.
This last overwhelming calamity will
alter the future history of Sicily and
southern Italy. It will be regarded as
certain that a conslderoble portion of
the population of this fair land will
bow before the wrath of the goda and
seek homes elsewhere. Next to Italy
Itself, America will feel the effect of
this calamity more thau any otner
country, for a large proportion of the
stricken population will seek refuge
there as soon as the means of flight
can be secured.
4
Low Water Delays t'oal Ship.
A ablpmcut of l.iHsMKH) bushels of coai
left the Kanawha ilvcr the other day foi
Cincinnati and Louisville. The river al
dam No. U lacked one foot of enough
water to start the Pittsburg 8eet of ovet
H.1,000,000 bushels for the South on Tuesday.
havea Maa Kills Self with Raior.
Taking the raxor with which he baa
just finished ahaviug man In the Port
Jervis, N. Y barber shitp where he wui
employed, Paul Graff, 31 years old, cut
his own throat, dying Instantly.
Extra Kara Law Held Valid.
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the validity of the Uw enacted by the Leg
islature last winter, giving railroad coin.
panles authority tq charge an extra 10
MANY HURT IN THEATER TANIQ.
Plro a Stasia at Altouaa, Pa., Kuata
Spectators ia llurrjr.
Following the close of an act at tht
Keith Theater In Altoona, I'a., where a
nioving picture show was being presented,
fire started on the stage. There was a
maA rush for the exits by the panlc
stricfien spectators and many received
painful bruises. While the firemen wer
responding to an alarm tbs names spread
rapidly, consuming the stage nad much
of the Interior. ,
BURGLAB GETS $29,000.
Baa Theft Da to Fanltr Repair
- Work
But for the reversing of a spring in
the vault time lock a burglar could not
cents for tickets puMiased on trains. The hav, earrl(Hi ,w f20,700 from the First
tjuesuon came up in a case irom Mgani v.tlon.i iao). 0f Monrovia. Cal. Four
county, brought by Marion Miller ogalust
tha Toledo and Ohio Central
At Frankfort, Ky Justice leasing, is
the Court of Appeals, rendered a decision
giving horsemen a sweeping victory, hold
ing that betting or wagering on a bene
race is not gaming oud cannot be cos
strued as a felouy.
days before the robbery an expert lock
smith from Los Angeles overhauled the
lock. He did bis work faultily and left
the lock outwardly in good shape, but
actually useless. Tbe fact that the burg
lar bad still to open an ordinary combi
nation lock baa caused the belief that he
was skilled la the handling of locks.
Commits Suicide In a Tab.
Despondent from a long illneas, caused
by a caucer of the throat, uaviu.nari,
SO, a Civil War veteran, committed sui
cide by drowning hlmsell ma oataiuu
in the hospital ai m
Dayton. Ohio, f
At Frankfort, Ky., Justice leasing, in
the Court of Appeals, rendered a decision
giving horsemen a sweeping victory, hold
ing that betting or' wagering on a horse
race is not gaming aud cannot be con
strued as a felony.
i
Eatra Faro Law Held Valid. -
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the validity of the law enacted by the Leg
islature last winter, giving railroad com
panies authority to charge an extra 10
cents for tickets purchased on trains. The
question came up in a case from Logan
county, brought by Marion Miller against
the Toledo and Ohio Central. '
Shares Maal Kills Self with Raaor.
Taking the razor with which he had
just finished shaving a man in the Port
Jervis, N. Y barber shop where he was
employed, Paul Graff, 31 years old, cht
bis own throat, dying Instantly.
' CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
Cardinal Victor Lucian Sulpice Lecot,
archbishop of Bordeaux, died at Cham
bery, France.
Date culture In the Imperial valley,
California, is declared to be a success by
J. W. Jennings, an experimenter.
Justices of the Court of Special Ses
sions in New York sat almost all night
in efforts to catch up on cases.
Forty-two steam and thirteen sailing
vessels were built In the United States
aud officially numbered during November.
A special commission from Porto Rico
is In Washington for the purpos of Induc
ing Congress, to impose a duty of 0 cent
a pound -on foreign coffee, the principal
Industry of the Uland.
A bridge three miles in length will be
built by the Pennsylvania road over Hell
Gate, from Port Morris, a suburb of Now
York, to lug island. 4 ne center area
will be 1,000 feet long.
The Rev. John P. McCloskey, assistant
pastor of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Toledo, in the pulpit announc
ed that bis days wer numbered, accord'
ing to doctors, but he would labor to tb
lust.
Beaten, Robbed, Cremated.
J. A. Gollahon, 75 year old, of Broad-
ford. Vs., was beaten, robbed and incin
erated in his own house, which was set
afire by tramps, who are thought to have
known that the old man bad money
around the premise.
Entombed Miners Found Dead.
Entombed in the Pennsylvania colliery V
at Mount Carmel, Pa., by an avalanche .
of coal, the bodies of Frank Logan and l
Stanislaus Mortsvsge were found in a '
tnanway by a rescuing party.
Blaek Uaad Wraoka Hooao. 1
Bacaus be refused to pay $1,000 de-
tnandedS the Black Hand is believed to4
have attempted to kill Joseph Cacolici and;
his family In Cleveland. Dynamite vwaa
erploded at a corner of his house and
-nii-wlerahle dane ras done, but ao one I
was hurt,
Disbarred Attorney Loses 0le.
Judge Jones of the Circuit Court in
Sioux Falls. S. D., has decided' that
George W. Egan, who was elected State's
Attorney after his disbarment by tbe Su
preme Court, Is not eligible to held the
office.
