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STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS.
A monster mass meeting at which
the cause of the striding telegraphers
is to be iaid before the business men
of Chicago was decided on by Presi
dent Sylvester J. Small, of the Com
mercial Telegraphers' union.
Supt. Terhune of the Western
Union Telegraph company appealed to
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi to fur
nish protection for the offices of the
Western Union at Holly Springs. Gre
nada and Greenwood. The governor
told him to appeal to the. courts first.
President Sylvester J. Small, of the
Commercial Telegraphers’ union, re
ceived assurance from President H. R.
Perham, of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers, that the financial sup
port of the railroad men had been
asked and that their first voluntary
contribution would be at least $100.
000. Representatives of the com
panies asked Gen. Bell for troops to
protect the office at Ashfork. Ariz.,
and were told to apply to the governor
of the territory.
An armed mob attacked the office of
the Postal Telegraph company at Ash
fork. Ariz.. and broke every window in
the building with a rain of bullets. The
lives of four of the employes were en
dangered, but no one was injured.
President Small gave out a state
ment showing that his general strike
order had resulted in the quitting of
many operators. He said very many
new members were joining the union.
The governments of the United
States and Canada were urged to take
over the control of the telegraph lines
of the Western Union and Postal
companies by President Small of the
commercial telegraphers in a bulletin.
Mr. Small also started a campaign for
a congressional investigation into the
conduct of the companies. The call
for a strike of cable operators was re
scinded. In Chicago the operators in
six brokerage houses walked out.
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Daniel J. Keefe were named a commit
tee of the American Federation of La
bor to try to bring about an end of the
strike.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Secretary of State Elihu Root, who
ha:- already spent three weeks at the
farm-sanitarium of William C. Mul
doon. ex-champion wrestler, near
White Plains, X. Y., taking Mr. Mul
doon's course of athletic treatment for
a severe attack of nervous exhaus
tion, expects to complete his cure in
two weeks more. He is now well on
the road to complete recovery and all
reason for apprehension about his
health seems to have disappeared.
To relieve the money market during
crop moving. Secretary of the Treas
ury Cortelyou will place each week,
at such points in the country as he
shall designate, government funds to
such an amount as he deems sufficient
to prevent an acute monetary strin
gency and possible panic when the
demand for money is greatest.
Figures compiled by the attorney
general of Minnesota, show that, with
three exceptions, the railroads of that
state are receiving increased passen
ger revenues since the two-cent fare
law went into effect.
Raisuli completely defeated the
large force sent against him by the
sultan of Morocco in the effort to se
cure the release of Caid MacLean, and
threatens the City of Alcazar.
Frank Peknolas and Samuel Am
brose were stabbed to death at Coal
dale, Pa., presumably by “Black
Hand" agents.
The Atlantic battleship fleet will
start for the Pacific next December,
according to an oflicial statement is
sued by Secretary Loeb at the direc
tion of President Roosevelt.
Mme. Agnes Lake, the first woman
circus owner in this country and at
one time a famous bareback rider and
high wire walker, died at the home
of relatives in Jersey City.
It cost the American government
$2,554,970 to keep the American army
, of Cuban pacification in that island
during the fiscal year of 1907.
Five persons were suffocated by
smoke from a fire in a tenement in
Somerville, Mass.
Attorney General Bonaparte has de
cided that natives of British India are
ineligible to citizenship, not being
white.
T. F. Shay, a prominent attorney of
Cincinnati, O., died in the rooms of
his stenographer, Mrs. Ada Taylor, in
that city.
Claude Boyd, aged 21, was shot and.
it is thought, fatally injured at Stoy,
Dl., by Frank Myers, a professional
gambler, la a quarrel over a card
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Postmaster McElroy, of the national
house of representatives, died at Del
aware, O.
Two cases of a rare and strange
disease known as “relapsing fever*’
have appeared in the Beth Israel hos
pital at New York.
Great Britain has accepted the prop
osition of the United States to submit
the New Foundland fisheries
dispute to arbitration at The Hague.
Miss Catherine Root, a niece, will
inherit $500,000 left by Charles J.
Root, the manufacturer, who was
killed in an auto accident near Great
Barrington, Mass.
Circuit Judge James Pryor Tarvin
of Covington, Ky., died of asthma at
Cleveland, O.
- A mill which ras in course of con
struction collapsed, at Lille, France,
and ten men were kPled.
r Obadiah Lum Sypbes pioneer dealer
In antiquities in this co.mtry, is dead
•t his home In Bast Orange, N. J„ in
Ms 74th year.
"Star Masterpiece,” a Berkshire
hog formerly owned by the Wisconsin
state university, was sold at the
Whitehall. 111., hog sale to residents of
Kirksville, 111., for $5,500.
Dr. James C. Monoglian, of Wash- j
ington, has been appointed to the I
chair of economics at Notre Dame uni
versity. He is at present chief of the !
consular reports of the bureau of sta
tistics at Washington.
With the arrest of four Mexicans in :
Los Angeles, Cal., the revolutionary j
movement, which under the name of |
La Junta has for three years been a !
source tif endless trouble and annoy
ance to the administration of Presi
dent Diaz, of Mexico, it is believed
has been stamped out.
John Porter Stoliings and William
J. Sevier, prosperous farmers, engaged
in a street duel with pistols in Lib
erty, Mo., resulting ia the death of
Stoliings.
King Charles of Roumania granted
amnesty to all those who were im
plicated in the recent agrarian revolt,
with the exception of about 200 mili
tant priests and those already sen
tenced for murders committed dur
ing the uprising. The prisoners total
about 8,000.
The American minister at Madrid,
Mr. Collier, is negotiating an extradi
tion treaty between the United States
and Spain.
William J. Bryan said in the Com
moner: “It is the trust magnate, not
the opponents of the trust, who is
striking at property rights. He tres
passes upon the property rights of
the small manufacturer and the re
tailer, and .heartlessly drives him
into bankruptcy.”
imormauon nas come irom Konie
that Pope Pius X. has bestowed the
title of countess on Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, wife of the well-known finan
cier, in recognition of her charities
and benefactions to the church.
Advices from Macon, Ga., state that
John F. Gaynor, the Syracuse con
tractor, who was convicted of com
plicity in the Savannah frauds, is
critically ill.
The forest fires which broke out
August 17 in the neighborhood of the
forts at Toulon. France, have again
become menacing. A large force of
colonial infantry is engaged in fight
ing the flames.
Announcement was made that the
heads of the Interborough Metropoli
tan company, the traction combina
tion in New York, have refused to
open their books to the public-service
commission.
Evander Mclver, a wdaltliy con
tractor of Chicago, was found dead
in a basement, and is believed to have
been murdered.
Fred Kersters, aged 11, was burned
to death in a fire that destroyed his
home at La Crosse, Wis.
Robert E. Bundy has begun a quo
warranto action in the circuit court of
Pepin county, Wisconsin, to remove
Frank L. Taylor, sheriff of the county,
from office on the ground that Sheriff
Taylor was a deserter from the
United States military service on two
occasions, once in 1862 and again in
1863.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer,
has leased 750.000 acres of grazing
land in the Standing Rock reserva
tion, South Dakota, comprising one of
the finest cattle tracts in the north
west.
A receiver was appointed fpr the
big wholesale grocery firm of E. C.
Hazard & Co., of New York, with li
abilities placed at $260,000.
Della Fox, the comedienne, is seri
ously ill at the Hotel Lincoln in Pitts
burg of appendicitis and peritonitis.
Ail her engagements have been can
celed.
Central Illinois distillers paid into
the collector's office at Peoria during
the fiscal year ended July 1 more than
$25,000,000 an average daily collec
tion of $100,000.
Sensational disclosures, involving
padding of accounts to the extent of
hundreds of thousands of dollars by
the Interborough company, headed by
August Belmont, were made by the
New York public service commission.
The Nebraska railway commission
rescinded its action advancing the
minimum charge on small shipments
on the Burlington from 25 cents to 30
cents.
William H. Edwards, aged 60, of
Utica, N. Y., who was lost in the
Adirondack woods Aug. 12, was found
in a pitiful plight. He had been living
on berries and roots.
Corporal James A. McLain, Jr., an
army recruiting officer, committed
suicide at a hotel at Rutland. Vt., by
drinking carbolic acid.
Moors made an advance on the
French camp under cover of a fog,
but the fog lifted and the fanatics
were driven back with heavy losses.
William W. Prosser, 4221 West
Belle street, St. I amis, city passenger
agent of the Clover Leaf route, died at
La Porte, lnd., while visiting rela
tives.
The empress of Germany fell and
sprained her ankle and injured a vein
in her left leg.
Frau Frances von Bredov, daughter
of Senator Francis G. Newlands, of
Nevada, and wife of Lieut. Leopold
von Bredow of the Cuirassiers of the
Guard, died in Berlin.
Judge Cochrane of Sullivan, 111.,
granted a change of venue to Decatur
In the case of Fred H. Magill and bis
bride, accused of the murder of the
first Mrs. Magill, at Clinton, ill.
Francis Ilea MacMillen. the Ameri
can violinist whose genius has attract
ed attention both in this country and
abroad, is reported in cable advices to
be lost in- the Alps.
According to a statement of Senator
Platt, president of tbe United States
Express company, the company's net
earnings for the fiscal year ended
June 30 were only $137,007. as com
pared with $373,061 last year.
Two Japanese were discovered In
the rear of Fort McPherson, at At
lanta, Ga., taking views and sketches
of the buildings and grounds.
An agreement has been reached on
the price to be paid by the United
States government to the owners for
three islands in Panama bay and for
the improvements now there. The land
is wanted for canal purposes.
John A. Besson end Dr. Edward B
Perrin were convicted ig tb.j United
States court at San Franclgeo of con
spiracy to defraud the government
eut of 12.000 acres of land in Cali
fornia.
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Severe frosts in North Dakota dam
aged late grain and garden .truck.
Janies M. Shumaker, former super
intendent of public buildings and
i grounds at Harrisburg, Pa., and Impll
: cated by the report of the capitol in
I vestigation commission, has declared
that he will make full confession of
! all he knows in connection with the
capitol graft scandal. He says the
| manipulation of funds was engineered
' by a high official of the state at Har
'■ risburg to cover up a shortage of the
j state treasury.
For two hours a mob of patients at
I the state hospital for the criminal in
| sane in Dannemora, N. Y., stood off
• their guards while others made a des
l perate attempt to force an exit from
the building. Not until one of the mad
men had been shot and killed, and
i the guards reinforced by less violent
j inmates and villagers was the out
| break suppressed.
A sharp earthquake was felt on the
islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica.
Several strong shocks have been re
ported from the island of St. Lucia.
Drivers aud stablemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses of
New York went on strike. They de
mand a uniform working week of 60
hours and an increase in wages.
A. D. Berg, of the Second Washing
ton regiment, won the president’s
match at Camp Perry, O., and thereby
also won the individual rifle shooting
championship of America.
Marion Story, the artist and broth
er of Julian P. Story, committed sui
cide at his home, Brook Farm, near
Port Chester, N. Y.. by shooting.
The state of Texas began proceed
ings against the International Har
vester company for violation of the
anti-trust laws.
A sudden ending of the masters
hearing in connection with the suit in
equity brought by relatives for an
accounting of the property of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy, leader of the
Christian Science faith, came when
former Senator William E. Chand
ler, senior counsel for the relatives,
or “next friends.” announced to the
board of masters that they had filed
a motion with the superior court to
dismiss their action.
After a search that lasted five years
and covered 15,000 miles on two con
tinents. Julius Teich found the girl
he loved and persuaded her to marry
him, only to kill her in a fit of anger
after two months of wedded life in
New York city, and then, repentant,
to take his own life.
Following a meeting of the execu
tive council of the American Federa
tion of Labor President Gompers said
that most probably the federation
would bring a counter-suit against the
National Manufacturers' association,
headed by J. W. Van Cleave, charging
that body with conspiracy.
The arrival of three columns of
warring tribesmen who joined the
army of fanatics besieging Casablanca,
rendered more serious the problem
undertaken by France and Spain to
“restore order.” Gen. Drude asked
for reenforcements and troops were
sent from Oran, Algeria.
William H. Hicks, paymaster for the
Schaum & Uh’.inger company, textile
machinists in the northeastern section
of Philadelphia, was held up and
robbed of $6,000 within a short dis
tance of the machine shops by two
highwaymen, oue of whom shot him
in the right arm. One of the robbers
was pursued and captured and the
money was recovered.
Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, re
moved three police commissioners and
appointed new ones, but the men
ousted said they would not submit.
Clarence Haines, formerly of Colum
bus, O.. went to his wife's sitting
room in Washington Courthouse, shot
her to death and then, turning the
weapon on himself inflicted a mortal
wound.
Two fires in Pittsburg, Pa., caused
by the explosion of gasoline in clothes
pressing establishments canned dam
age estimated at $250,000 and for a
time threatened the entire east, end
section of the city.
Three men were killed in an explo
sion at the Laflin & Rand Powder mill
at Pleasant Prairie. Wis.
The ministers of Coffeyville, Kan.,
have formed a “union” and adopted a
uniform price of five dollars to be ex
acted from persons not members of
their congregations lor a funeral ser
mon.
Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, issued
an order suspending from office Rail
road Commissioner Joseph M. Brown
and appointing in his place S. G. Mc
Lendon.
Three Japanese, belonging to a
traveling acrobatic troupe, have been
arrested at Postoff-on-Don. Russia,
with plans of fortifications and other
secret military documents in their
possession.
John Goldie, the famous steeplejack,
fell from the top of the Townsend
chimney, in Glasgow, which is,448 feet
high and the highest in the world.
Mis body was mutilated beyond recog
nition.
Syracuse (.V Y.) police have In
custody Julius P. Eller, who ia wanted
at Alamosa, Col., on a charge of grand
larceny In stealing from the Hi©
Grande railroad 82.000 in money or
ders and coupons.
Mrs. Prances Horne.-, aged 67 years,
wife of Edward Horner, a farmer on
the Browning road, near )£erchant
viile, N. J„ and Mrs. Victoria Napoli,
a servant, were chopped to.,death in
their honui, it is charged, by Charles
Gibson, a negro who was formerly em
ployed on the farm.
T«aving a note saving that, she
would rather face death tfcge meet
her husband's wrath when he learned
that she had misappropriated WOO
of funds of St. John's Evangelical Lu
theran church. Mrs. Andrew Goetz
left her home in West New York and
has not been heard from since.
One man was killed and 14 injured
on the Pennsylvania;, railroad near
Hagarstown, lnd„ when a local freight
crashed into a wreck train.
The Japanese government has plac
ed an order for an 18,000-ton battle
ship with the Fairfield Shipbuilding
company of Glasgow. The vessel will
be one of the most formidable armor
ed ships of war afloat
Three -me© .had narrow escapes
from dekth when an automofcjta driveq
by |®i£ «1.
crashed through' a, bridge over a
branch of the Desplaiaes . rltpr at
Cbannahan, in.
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SOLDIERS ARE ASKED FOR
WIRE COMPANIES APPEAL TO
MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR.
Claim Their Officers Are in Danger
— Citizens of Greenwood Threat
en Manager.
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Jackson, Miss. — Gov. Vardaman ;
- as asked Thursday to call out
troops to protect the telegraph
offices at Holly Springs, Grenada and
Greenwood. The appeal was made by
Supt. Terhune of the Western Union
company, who said the operators had
been driven from the office in the two
towns first named and that the mana
ger at Greenwood had been threatened
and abused by the citizens of that
place.
The governor replied that Supt.
Terhune should appeal to the courts,
and if they are unable to enforce the
lavr, he will adopt special measures
for protection.
President Small’s Challenge.
Chicago. — Officials of the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph com
panies were called upon Thursday
to prove to the public their oft-repeat
ed claims that they are handling all
their business satisfactorily.
President Small of the Telegraph
ers’ union said the companies were
not telling the truth, and he challeng
ed them to throw open their operat
ing-rooms for inspection by an impar
tial committee of business men. that
the public might know the real facts
about existing conditions.
Mr. Small says such a committee
will find the operating-rooms filled
with managers of branch offices, com
pany officials and dummies, with here
and there a ’real operator.” and that
only such business as makes the best
showing of results—the tickers ana
the work of the great business houses
—is being cared forv while the pub
lic at large is not getting service.
When President Small's suggestion i
was conveyed to the company officials !
the statement was made that investi
gation must be made from outside the
operating-rooms, and the decision must
rest with the business community at
large, which, they assert, is regaining
confidence and turning in more and
more business.
EX-SPEAKER MILLER IS DEAD.
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Was Driven from Chair When Muel- 1
ler Bill Was Passed in 1903.
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St. Louis. — John Henry Miller ;
of McLeansboro, 111., who was speak- !
er of the Illinois house of represeu- ;
tatives in 1903, when the Mueller law '
was passed, died here at the Was'.i- j
ington hotel of acute pancreatic r^'ec- .
tion. He came here ten days ago ]
from Chicago.
Miller was driven from the speak- 1
era chair to permit the passage of ■
the Mueller enabling law in a tempest
uous session. He was literally chased i
out of the assembly hall by infu
riated members, after the gavel had
been snatched from his shaking hands.
Several of Miller's friends shielded
hire from from the fists of the irate
members, but a score were hurt in
the melee, and when it was all over,
"■Charlie” Allen was chosen speaker
pro tem. and the Mueller law was
passed. (
Try to Dynamite Train.
Cripple Creek, Col.—An attempt
was made about noon Thursday to
blow up the incoming Short Line pas
senger train with dynamite at St.
Peter’s Dome, midway between Crip
ple Creek and Colorado Springs.
Every window in the last car was
broken. A similar attempt was made
to blow up the same train at Duffleld
Wednesday. The dynamiters escaped,
but the sbei.ff is on their trail.
Pretty Girl Accused of Theft.
Chicago.—-Miss Rose Haines, a
beautiful convent graduate, who car
ried off the honors of her class, a
prominent church worker of Hyde
Park and the daughter of one of the
wealthiest men of Bridgeport, Conn.,
ig a prisoner in a Hyde Park police
station cell, accused of theft. The
principal charge against Miss Haines
is that she stole two large diamonds
valued at $500 from a house where
she was a guest, and then pawned
them. The police say she lost $75,000
on the open board of trade.
Entombed by Fall of Rock.
Wllkesbarre. Pa.—Five men were
entombed Thursday by a fall of rock
in a tunnel of the mine at Port Blan
chard, near here, operated by the
Erie Coal company. Michael Naugh
ton, after several hours' effort,
crawled from under the debris badly
injured. He reported that four other
mep were caught In the fall. Of these
R is believed that James Boyle, of
lak'pnag. killed, and tltgt John
E.' Ifastice, -of* Phdnsvllle. ' and bko»
Germans are on the other side of the
fall and may have escaped.
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MORE MONEY IN LOW FARES.
Effect of the Two-Cent Law in Minne
sota Shown.
St. Paul. Minn.—Though the injunc
tion suits now in the federal court in
which the state has been made a de
fendant are principally directed at
the commodity rate law. the two-cent
passenger law is also involved and,
in anticipation of trouble, Attorney
General Young and his assistants
have just compiled figures covering
the passengdr law that are startling.
The figures are the roads' own com
pilations. furnished at the request of
the railway and warehouse commis
sion. and show that, the two-cent pas
senger law. instead of being confisca
tory, is directly the reverse. The fig
ures furnished the commission are
the passenger revenues for the months
of May and June, and compared with
an average two months' business for
the previous year, show a marked in
crease for all roads with the excep
tion of three, the Soo, Minneapolis &
St. Louis and the Great Western.
STRIKERS TO STATE CASE.
President Small Decides to Hold Mon
ster Mass Meeting.
Chicago.—A monster mass meeting
at which the cause of the striking
telegraphers is to be laid before the
business men of Chicago has been
decided on by President Small of the
Commercial Telegraphers' union.
Mr.. Small said Friday that as the
time had come when both sides were
determined, and it might seem to
the public that the strikers’ attitude
was mere stubbornness, the telegra
phers should go before the communi
ty and present their case fully.
The plan was taken up by Mr. Small
as the result of a private conversa
tion in which President Sager, of the
board of trade, expressed a desire to
look at the case from the point of
. view of the telegraphers, and said
that he would attend one of their
meetings.
INSANE PRISONERS SHOT.
Desperate Outbreak in Clinton Prison
At Dannemora, N. Y.
Schenectady, X. Y.—One of the
worst outbreaks among the insane
prisoners in the history of Clinton
prison at Dannemora occurred Wed
nesday night. As a result Isaac Du
Bois. one of the inmates, is dead, shot
through the heart by a guard.
The insane prisoners were being
marshalled for bed when at a given
signal they rushed into the two big
lower dormitories and slammed the
doors in the faces of the guards. Hav
ing locked the doors they proceeded
to set about making their escape by
smashing the doors and sawing the
bars. The guards were finally obliged
to use rifles and pistols and it was
after midnight before the uprising
was quelled. Besides DuBois. who
was killed, several other prisoners
were seriously wounded.
Forest Fires in Michigan.
Marquette, Mich. — Serious forest
fires have been raging in the
western end of the upper peninsula
during the last week. Reports from
various localities indicate that much
timber has been burned. The damage
will run into the millions. A number
of logging camps have been destroyed
with their equipments.
Baby Drowns in Can of Milk.
Washington, Pa.—Raymond Lane,
one year old, fell head foremost
into a full can of milk in his father’s
dairy while no one was about. The
child was wedged fast and was
drowned.
Stand Up for Flag in Manila.
Manila.—A mass meeting of 3,000
Americans adopted resolutions pro
testing against the indignities to the
American flag, and congratulating the
Philippine commission on the enact
ment of the drastic law prohibiting
the display of any ensign except the
American In the Philippines. The res-'
olutions also invite FiHpinoa to join
with the Americans in making the pol
icy of the Philippine commission suc
cessful. Among those who delivered
addresses at the meeting was Con
gressman McKinley.
Street Car and Freight Train Collide.
Alliance, O.—A street car was in
collision here Thursday with an en
gine and three freight cars. The
motorman was probably fatally hurt
and the conductor and four passengers,
including three women, were injured.
Ship Abandoned at Sea.
London.—The American ship TUUe
E. Star buck, Capt. Wlan, which left;
New York April 10 bound for Hono
fuluVhas been abandoned at'sea. Her
crew were rescued - and landed at
Coquimbo.
ERGY AT MULDOON’S.
NO OCCASION FOR WORRY
Has Spent Three Weeks at Sanitarium
Unknown to Public—Received
One Visit fromvthe
President.
New York.—Secretary of State
Elihu Root. who has already
spent three weeks at the farm-sani
tarium of William Muldoon. ex
champion wrestler, near White Plains,
taking Mr. Muldoon's course of ath
letic treatment for a severe attack of
nervous exhaustion, expects to com
plete his cure in two weeks more. He
is now well on the road to complete
recovery and all reason for appre
hension about his health seems to
have disappeared.
On the quiet farm among the West
Chester hills, so secluded that the sec
retary of state was enabled to pass
three weeks there and he visited by
the president of the United States be
fore his whereabouts were discover
ed by the public, Mr. Root has fleshed
up, put on a healthy coat of tan. lost
the drawn, worried look of the early
summer, and will go back to Washing
ton, as Mr. Muldoon phrases it, "the
strongest member of the cabinet, not
even barring Taft."
During the first two weeks of his
stay he gained a pound a day. acquir
ing therewith such a stock of energy
that he was able Friday to ride 18
miles, walk three miles and in addi
tion to the usual course of exercise
with the big medicine hall, box 15
vigorous minutes with Muldoon.
When visited Friday on the veranda
of the Muldoon residence, his face
showed good color, his eyes were clear
and his hand steady. He looked a
trifle tired but otherwise well. Mr.
Root asked to he excused from talk
ing about his health, but his appear
ance was a sufficient contradiction of
the exaggerated reports of a complete
breakdown. His physician visited
him but. left without making any ar
rangements for his return.
According to Mr. Muldoon. Secretary
Root, when he arrived, was suffering
from nervous exhaustion, the result of
overwork and strain.
COSTLY BLAZES IN PITTSBURG.
Two Fires Cause Damage Estimated
at $250,000.
Pittsburg. Pa.—Two fires Thursday
caused by the explosion of gasoline
in clothes pressing establishments
caused damage estimated at $250,000
and for a time threatened the entire
east end section of this city.
The first fire broke out shortly be
fore noon in the Club Pressing &
CJleaning company's place at 6339
Penn avenue. The three story brick
building was destroyed and 14 em
ployes were rescued from the windows
by firemen.
The second fire was more serious
and before it was controlled seven
buildings were wiped out. The blaze
started in the Enterprise Pressing
company's shop at 5975 Center avenue
about two o'clock and spread with
great rapidity east and west.
A number of automobile garages in
the neighborhood had quantities of
gasoline on hand and barrels and
tanks of the fuel were removed from
the vicinity. A hundred or more auto
mobiles were run out of the garages
and for a time lined either curb of a
block, several blocks from the burn
ing district.
The flames made a great roar and
leaped into the air 50 feet above the
burning buildings. Between the burn
ing block and the handsome East Lib
erty market house only a narrow lot
intervened and grave fears were en
tertained lest the market should
catch. This building escaped, how
ever, but for the scorching of the east
side and the shattering of the win
dows. Shortly after four o'clock the
fire was declared to be under control.
Four firemen were hurt during the
fighting of the fire.
Swedish Prince at Newport.
Newport, R. 1.—The Swedish
armored cruiser Fylgia. with Prince
Wilhelm of Sweden on board, arrived
here Thursday from Jamestown. Va.
The prince was entertained at dinner
by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, and later at
tended a dance given by Mrs. Edward
.1. Berwind. Salutes were exchanged
between the cruiser and Fort Adams
and the Reina Mercedes, flagship of
Rear Admiral John Merrill, command
ing the second naval district, as the
cruiser entered the harbor.
Money for Crop Movements/
New York. — The first consider
able transfer of currency to the,
west for the movement of crops and
other Interior needs of the country
was made by the subtreasury Friday..
Five hundred thousand dollars was
transferred to Chicago and another
half million to San Francisco.
New Professor for Notre Dame.
South Bend, Ind.—Dr. James C.
Monoghan, of Washington, D. C„ has
been appointed to the chair of eco
nomics at Notre Dame university. He
Is at present chief of the consular re
ports of the Bureau of Statistics.
Berkshire Hog 8ells for $5,500.
Janesville, Wis.—‘Star Master
piece," a Berkshire hog formerly own- i
ed by the Wisconsin state university, i
was sold at the Whitehall, 111., hog 1
sale Friday to residents of Kirksville, i
111., for $5,500. i
La Crosse Has “Boosting Day.”
La Crosse, Wis.—Business was en
tirely suspended in La Crosse to give 1
the people an opportunity to-get to- i
gether for a monster "Boosting" cele- 1
hration. Fifteen thousand people at- 1
tended “Booster” exercises. i
Metal Polishers Want More Pay.
' Cincinnati.—At the national con
vention Wednesday of Union Metal '
Polishers Brass Workers a resold- I
tion was Introduced which calls for aa 1
increase of 20 per cent, in wages and 1
an eight-hoar day. <
CALLS THE HE6B0ES GUILTY
GEN. MYER’S REPORT TOUCHES.
ON BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR.
Garrison Removed From Fort Brown
as Result—Commander Urges
Better Pay and Canteen.
Washington. — That Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Myer, commanding the
department of Texas, thinks the col
ored troops "shot up" llrowusville,
Tex., last August is shown by his an
nual report. After calling the affray
"a lamentable occurrence which is
still shrouded in mystery to a great
extent," he says:
"However, it seems to have been
established that on the night in ques
tion a few enlisted men of the first
battalion. Twenty-fifth infantry, then
garrisoning Fort Brown, did go armed
into Brownsville and do some promis
cuous firing resulting in the death of
one civilian, one horse and the wound
ing of one policeman. It has been Im
possible to identify the individuals
who actually did the firing. Undoubt
edly there was at the time mutually
bad blood between a part of the gar
rison of Fort Brown and some of the
citizens of Brownsville and this fact
must, to some extent, account for the
occurrence.”
As a result of the occurrence, Fort
Brown has been deprived of a garri
son and the reservation has been tem
porarily transferred to the depart
ment of agriculture.
In line with other department com
manders, Gen. Myer takes the ground
that the pay of enlisted men should be
Increased, particularly of non-cominis
sioned officers. He favors legislation
increasing the infantry by at least
ten regiments of full peace strength,
and he declares that the continuing
absence of so many officers renders
i more apparent and evident the neces
sity for some legislation giving two of
ficers at least to a company or troop
at all times.
Gen. Myer'renews the recommenda
tion of most of his predecessors rela
tive to the removal of the canteen
restrictions on the sale of malt
liquors. He says there has been about
8 per cent, decrease in the number of
trials by court martial, and the num
ber of trials for desertion far ex
ceeds that of any other crime or
charge.
EDDY CASE ENDS SUDDENLY.
“Next Friends” File Motion to Dis
miss Their Piea.
Concord. X. H.—A sudden, though
not wholly unexpected, ending of the
masters'^ hearing in connection with
the suit in equity brought by relatives
of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, leader of
the Christian Science faith, came in
the sui>eiior courtroom here Wednes
day.
Former Senator William E. Chand
ler, senior counsel for the relatives,
or “next friends,” announced to the
hoard of masters that they had filed
a motion with the superior court to
dismiss their action.
The suit was brought on the ground
that airs. Eddy, being incompetent,
on account of age and infirmities, to
manage her own affairs, was the vic
tim of persons associated with her in
Christian Science work, who were
named as defendants in the e-quity
suit. The masters were appointed by
the superior court to determine the
question of Mrs. Eddy's competency,
and heariugs before them have been in
progress for several days.
The reason for the petition for dis
missal, as made known at the hear
ing Wednesday by Mr. Chandler, was
the belief that success along the lines
desired could not be obtained, and
the unprofitableness of any immedi
ate result of a decision in favor of the
next friends in the exact issue as
now framed, compared with the bur
dens and disadvantages to be endured
both before and after such a decision.
Paymaster Shot and Robbed.
Philadelphia.—William H. Hicks,
paymaster for the Schaum & Fhlinger
company, textile machinists In the
northeastern section of the city, was
held up and robbed of $6,000 within a
short distance of the machine shops
Wednesday by two highwaymen, one
of whom shot him in the right arni.
Mill hands pursued John Posicki. said
to be the robber. He jumped on a
street car but the pursuers pulled
down the trolley pole and caught
him. The stolen money was found
lying in an open lot across which
Posicki had fled.
Cortelyou Will Try New Plan.
New York.—Secretary of the Treas
ury Cortelyou announced Friday a
new plan of depositing government y
funds in New York, Boston and other
cities, to afford relief to the money
market in the approaching crop move
ment period. Mr. Cortelyou will, com
mencing next week, place each week,•
at stieh points in the country as lie
shall designate, government funds to
such an amount as he deems sufficient
to prevent an acute monetary strin
gency and possible panic when the de
mand for money Is greatest.
New York Meat Drivers Strike.
New York.—Drivers and stablemen
employed at tbe wholesale beef pack
ing houses went on strike Thursday
night. They demand a uniform work
ing week of GO hours and an increase
in wages.
Earthquake in Lesser Antilles.
at. Thomas, D. W. 1.—A sharp earth
quake was felt Thursday morning oh
the islands of Guadeloupe and Domin
ica. Several strong shocks have been
reported from the island of St. Lucia
this week.
“L'nion” Pastors Get $5 for Funerals.
Coffevville, Kan.—The ministers of
this city have formed a “union” and
adopted a uniform price of five dol
lars to be exacted from persons not
members of their congregations for a
funeral sermon.
Railroad Commissioner Ousted.
Atlanta, Ga.—Gov. Hoke 8mith
Wednesday issued an order to take ef
fect immediately suspending from of
fice KaHrOfd Commissioner Joseph M
Brown and appointing in Us place &
G. McLendon.