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BRIEF REVIEW Oj ii hr rar RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM IZED FORM. HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS | Information fathered from All Quar ter* of the Civilized World and Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man. STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS. Striking operators interfered with the government service from Camp Perry, O.. and soldiers patrolled the line for several miles. Arbitration of the telegraphers strike as it stands at present is out of the question, according to President S. J. Small of the Commercial Teleg • raphers- union. Mr. Small said the strikers are prepared to remain out for two months and the union will support them for that time. S. J. Small, president of the Com mercial Telegraphers' union, arrived in New York and was met at the rail way station by a large delegation of the striking telegraphers. He gave out an optimistic statement regarding gen eral conditions. In Chicago it was be lieved he went east on a peace mis sion. A monster mass meeting at which the cause of the striking telegraphers is to be laid before the business men of Chicago was decided on by Presi dent Sylvester J. Small, of the Com mercial Telegraphers' union. MISCELLANEOUS. It was reported in Tangier that the suitau of Morocco had been assas sinated in the palace at Fez. Gen. Drude asked for aid and obtained re enforcements from Oran. President Roosevelt and President Diaz simultaneously telegraphed notes to the presidents of five republics of Central America offering the good of fices of the United States and Mexico in bringing about a conference of the republics for a discussion of plans to maintain peace. The inhabitants of Martinique were thrown into a panic by an earthquake and other phenomena that caused them to fear another Mount Pelee dis aster. Judge A. L. Williams, of Topeka, Kan., died in his summer home on Pike's Peak. He was formerly gen eral counsel for the Union Pacific. Dr. George Waldron, a physician of Rochester; Airs. Catherine Farns worth, of Rochester, and Mrs. William Sca.idling and Mrs. Jane Hobbs, both of Hopewell, were instantly killed in a collision between an automobile in which they were driving and a trol ley car. near Canadaigua, X. Y. The will of Mrs. Catherine Harris, of Cincinnati, who left nearly half a million dollars to a half-brother re siding in Topeka, Kan., is to be con tested by her nephews. Eugene Cargell. marshal of Cairo, was shot and killed by Cohen Simms, a negro, near Aloccasin Gap, Fla. Simms surrendered. Cargell was at the head of a i>osse . that located Charles Williams, the murderer of Sheriff Tyus. of Grady county, in the house of Simms, his uncle. H. A. Woodman. 74 years old, a fur niture dealer, was fatally injured by a robber who entered his store in Kan sas City. A meeting of the directors of the Illinois Central in New York was broken up by a fist fight between President Harahan and Stuyvesant Fish. Hurled from a speeding automobile in which she was riding a trial test around the Morris Park race track at New York, Mrs. Leslie Kelsey, wife of R. G. Kelsey, a real estate man antj automobile writer, died almost in I stantly. Mrs. nyron rcenaricKs, ner six-year old grandchild and Arthur Oystar, driver of their carriage, were killed at Alliance, O., by a Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago passenger train. McKinley Richmond, a negro, aged ten years, was found guilty of mur der in the first degiee at Clarion, Pa. He killed his little sister. All records for excavation on the line of the Panama canal were broken during July, despite a reduction in the force of employes. Col. Amos Stiekney, corps of en gineers. U.. S. A., and Rear Admiral Davis were retired, having reached the age limit. Michael Brennan shot and killed his brother, Antonio, near Lakeville. Minn., in a quarrel over the dividing line between their farms. 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. A pearl valued at $1,000 was found ’i> Clinch river, Tennessee, by William Tyler, a professional pearl hunter. The Atlantic battleship fleet will start for the Pacific next December, according to an official statement la sued by Secretary Loeb at the direc tion of -President Roosevelt Arthur Clemens, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ was struck ;by a baseball while play ing at Gleneove, l. !.. and. killed. ft cost the American government $2,564,97$ to keep the Americas army of Cuban pacification in that isfowo during the fiscal year of 1907. Frank Peknolas and Samuel Am brose were stabbed to death at Coal dale, Pa., presumably by “Black Hand" agents. “Star Masterpiece," a Berkshire hog formerly owned by the Wisconsin state university, was sold at the Whitehall, 111., hog sale to residents ot Kirksville, 111., for $6,500. * Glasgow Thompson, a bootblack, ori Kewanee, UL, inherited $30,000 from a great uncle who died in Montana. . - - . V * __ ’ Dried Cherries. , Wash and stone the cherrfef nfi place ill single layers on jUUm Sprinkle generously with"' gragpgtted sugar and dry in the sun 011 (JWuugk ft F. Singleton. of Newport, Ky., was robbed and probably fatally wounded in Cincinnati. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was the guest of President Roosevelt at lunch eoh at Oyster Bay. "Death from natural causes” was the verdict of the coroner's jury in London in the inquest on the body of the earl of Dumnore, the most promi nent Christian Scientist in England. Grover Cleveland has given up the idea of leaving his home in Princeton, N. J., on a vacation because of attacks by his old enemy, indigestion. Scientists in Germany and France are considering the establishment of i "safety chambers" in coal mines in order to prevent loss of life in time of accident. The Hungavian-American bank has been started in New York to take care of the business of the 2,600,000 Hun garians in the l.'nited States, who send back to Europe $80,000,000 a year. James A. Allan, lawyer, has taken steps to have the New York curb stock market declared a nuisance and abolished. The lockout of dock laborers at Ant werp ended, the men voting to go back at the old scale of wages, one dollar per day. Many sailors were injured ip an ex plosion of gas on r.he Portuguese bat tleship, Vasco de Gama, at Lisbon. Chicago packers and their teamsters made an agreement binding for two years and the threatened strike was averted. One man was killed and seven pas sengers dangerously injured in the wreck of a Clover Leaf passenger ttain at Bowman. 111. Two cars jumped a switch and crashed into a box car. A passenger train on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, carrying Secretary of War Taft, was wrecked near the depot at Spring Hill, Kan. None of the passengers or trainmen was hurt. A freight train on the Hocking Val ley railroad went off a trestle near Dundas, O. The train and trestle took fire and were consumed, includ* ing several cars of oil and merchan dise. ' Mrs. Anna A. Hucke was shockingly mangled by a lion that escaped from its cage in a Pittsburg summer resort. Raymond W. Clark, captain of troop H, Thirty-ninth regiment, and a mem ber of the Grand Army of the Repub lic, committed suicide at Oakland. Cal., by turning on the gas in his room. His action was attributed to financial em barrassment. Knabenshue's airship, while 2,000 feet above the fair grounds at Green ville. O.. burst and dropped like a rocket. The aeronaut escaped unhurt. Kiugsbury Ratchelder. professor of Greek in Hillsdale college. Michigan, died at Ocean Park, Me. Eugene Moriarty, editor and propri etor of the Worcester Posi and a prominent Democrat, was drowned while bathing in Lake Quinsigamond. Mass. The explosion of what appears to have been a large oercusaion cap in a package addressed to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou created excitement in the Nicetown, Pa., sub station of the Philadelphia post office. Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died at his home, 2453 Indiana avenue. Chi cago. of heart disease, aggravated by kidney trouble. The jurisdiction of the federal court in the issuance of the recent railway rale injunctions in North Carolina was upheld in an opinion issued by Judge Pritchard. He asserted the suit is not one against the state within the meaning of the constitution. L. H. Carter, son of Brig. Gen. W. H. Carter, U. S. A., was killed by an electrical shock at the University of Illinois, where he was a special stu dent. Albert Stemmelen, of Detroit, went crazy over religion and drowned his two-year-old daughter. Paris police authorities cabled Mr. Reese of Columbus, O., who recently was robbed of 93,<KX). besides gems, to proceed to the French capital and testify against J. V/. Bailey and Wil liam Buckley, who are accused of be ing swindlers. Officials of the American Tobacco company in New York stated that the shutting down of the company’s fac tory in Cincinnati is permanent. The unsatisfactory condition of the labor market was given as the cause. Effective war, it is announced, is be ing waged against the Black Hand throughout Pennsylvania by the state constabulary and the indications are that the troops will soon rid the corii monwealth of this murderous organi zation. George Gould, 65 years old, who was one of the wealthiest men of New Rochelle, N. Y., died in a hos pital there of starvation and exposure, according to the physicians. It is expected that the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. will be the only big bid* der for the issue of $40,000.0(10 of New York city bonds which will <be offered for sale next month. Prof. Orea Root, brother of the sec retary of state, died at his home in Clinton, N. Y., of cirrhosis of the liver. ' . W. A. Farren, alias M. D. W. Adams, former cashier of the Farmers’ bank • of Clearfold, la., was arrested in Kan sas City on the charge of embezzling the school funds of Taylor, la„ on de posit in tire bank. The Lord Mayor of Dublin unveiled the monument erejted at Fontenoy, Belgium, to cioauneiaorate the bravery of the Irish brigade in the battle of Fontenoy in 1743, in the presence of 300 visitors. Ten persons were killed and 25 In jured in a headon collision between an express train bound from Bordeaux j for Paris and a freight train. 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 be shall designate, government funds tO; such an amount as he deems sufficient to prevent an acute monetary strut feenay and possible panig wben the Jemahd for money is greatest. The copipon council of Highmore, 3. Q., paused am ordinance which has J three been approved! by Acting* Mfryprj ||* ft-_;HcDo.-*ald, which forbids bpoony I from nfjiffn* la public places -- ■ The first hanging at Indiana. Pa., for more than 20 years was not a suc cess. The rope broke with Carmine Renzo, aged 45 years and weighing 175 pounds'.' A second attempt suc ceeded. Rev. Edwafrd Hurt Jewett, an aged and well-known Episcopalian minis ter, took his life at Manhattan Beach, Cal., by cutting his throat with a razor. Miss Mary Mactier Latrobe, daugh ter of the late R. Stewart Latrobe of Baltimore, was married in London to Col. Arthur P. D. Harris of the British army. It is announced in the City of Mex ico that peace in Central America is assured through the intervention of the United States and Mexico. Col. lvanhoff. governor of Viborg prison and -a vicious foe to the terror ists, wag assassinated by the explosion of a bomb while walking along one of the streets of St. Petersburg. The as sassin was arrested. Alton B. Parker, president of the American Bar association, addressing the opening session of that body's thirtieth annual convention in Port land, Me., discussed swollen fortunes and control of corporations, hinted that those who urged federal control are inclined to go beyond constitu tional limits in opposition to states' rights and said much of the work of state legislatures as to railroads and other concerns had been ill-advised, hasty, crude and unsatisfactory. A decree creating a national depart ment of sanitation for Cuba has been signed by Gov. M a goon, and is to be come effective upon the perfection of the organization. The personnel of “the department will consist of one chief and a national board of five members holding office for four years. This board will have full control of the sani tation of Cuba, supplanting all local boards. The Pacific Mail Steamship com pany's •steamer Acapulco. Capt. D. C. Prask, turned turtle and sank at the company’s docks in San Francisco. All the passengers and crew escaped. Marriage with a deceased wife's sis ter finally lias become legalized in Great Britain, the house of lords hav ing passed the bill sanctioning such unions by 9S to 54 votes.. Two persons wore killed and several others injured when a motor car on the Chicago, Milwaukee Electric rail way crashed into an ice wagon iu Glencoe^ a Chicago suburb. Little hine-year-old Ella Schrader, daughter of John Schrader, a railroad construction worker of Gary, Ind., was brutally murdered and the whole town sought in vain for her slayer. Five New York firemen were poi soned by smoke from burning analine salts and may die. The explosion of a boiler in the Rob bins & Spencer flour and feed mills at Scranton, Pa., resulted in the serious injury of four persons and was re sponsible for a fire which destroyed the plant and that of Armour & Co., adjoining. Miss Inda F'thel Blaine, 25 years old, was shot and killed in the Saratoga hotel, Chicago, by Charles E. Andrews, 40 years old, formerly a restaurant keeper in Elkhart, Ind., with whom she had eloped. Andrews then com mitted suicide Twenty-one persons were hurt when the Xew York and Augusta express on the Southern railway was thrown from the track by a broken rail at Red Hill. Va. The private car of Bird M. Robinson, president of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas- City railway, was wrecked, but the party aboard escap ed uninjured. Arrangements have been completed for the organization of a 550,000.000 American syndicate, which plans to develop several million acres of oil lands in Mexico. It is purposed not only to supply the Mexican market, but to ship the product in competi tion with the Standard Oil company. Tornadoes near Ladysmith and Whitehall, Wis., and in southern Ohio caused several deaths and destroyed much property. The tug Gerry of Wilmington. Del., «as sunk in a collision with the Brit ish steamer Barnstable in the Pataps co river, Maryland, off Sporrows Point. Five meu are believed to have lost then lives. "Charles Blondiu. the once famous light-wire walker, who once crossed Niagara falls on a rope, reported to have died ten years-ago, is said to be living a hermit lifeMn West Cheshire, Conn. Under the name of Michael Tt dd he Is working as a jobbing car penter. Four hundred union steamfitters. bricklayers, carpenters and other craftsmen working on' the National Rank of Commerce's new building in Kansas City for the Fuller Construc tion company struck because the firm employing tinners on th^ job conducts an open shop. • - The Japanese seaport city of Hako date was practically destroyed by fire. Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L. Copple, i farmer, and his wife, near {Losafte, Neb., May 12, was lynehed at Bouorpft.. . - • : » European governments are trying vainly to purchase in America large quantities of coal for their augmented navies. • i A crowded pussenger train on the Mohawk and -Malone division of the New York Central was saved from dis aster about two miles south of Fulton, N. Y„ by two young women, who dis covered a giant tree lying across the track on "a curve and flagged the ex press, using a, red shawl; > Edmond F. Nod. ~ df ’ Lexington, Miss., was nominated for governor in the Democratic- primaries. Several women and children were injured during a panic at a Cleveland pleasure resort as a result of a lion mangling Capt. James F. Briggs, a tamer and performer. Secretary of State Elihu Root, who has already spent three weeks at the farm-sanitarium of William C. Mul doon, ex-champion wrestler, near .White Plains, N. Y„ taking Mr. Mul dbon’s course of athletic treatment for a severe attack of nervous exha na tion, expects to complete his cure tn two weeks mores,' He la now well on ,tie road to complete recovery and all reason for apprehension about his health seems to have, disappeared. - | The Dupont de Nemour«s powder works at Sobranta. near Berkeley, GaL, were Mown op. tfcree persons be ihlured. -- -— - - - - - - - SEEKING A VALUA8LE SPOT. nC •* 4 Chipping Off the Money Part Doee Not Seem to Hurt. i * ' PERMANENT PEACE ASSURED CENTRAL AMERICAN CONFER ENCE WILL BE ARRANGED. Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz Send Simultaneous Notes to Heads of Five Republics. Washington.—President Roosevelt and President Diaz simultaneously have telegraphed notes to the presi dents of the five republics of Central America offering the good offices of the United States and Mexico in bring ing about a conference of the repub lics for a discussion of plans to main tain peace. The announcement that this action had been taken was made Wednesday by Acting Secretary Adee, of the state department. It was stated also that the notes would uot be made pub lic here until they had been received by the Central American states, and probably not until replies had been received. The exact time of sending the notes was not made known, but it is possible that replies from some of the countries already have reached Washington. Mr. Adee late Wednesday received Minister Godov, charge d'affaires of the Mexican embassy, and they con ferred at lenglh concerning the steps taken looking to the settlement Central American disputes and ending the almost incessant warfare be tween the republics. -Neither would admit that the Central American re publics had been invited to hold the conference at Washington, but Senor Corea, the Nicaraguan minister, is au thority for the statement that such an invitation soon wili Ik* extended. In fact, he telegraphed President Zelaya' to that effect. In diplomatic circles here it is said that none of the Central American re publics can afford to decline to accept the proffers of mediation made by the United States and Mexico, and that this means that permanent peace prac tically is assured. DOUBLE KILLING IN HOTEL. Indiana Man Shoots Woman -and Him self in Chicago. Chicago.—Miss Inda Ethel Blaine, 2a years old. was shot and killed in the Saratoga hotel Mondav aftemoon by Charles E. Andrews. 40 years old, formerly a restaurant keep er in Elkhart, Ind., with whom she had lived as wife for two months. After he had made sure the woman was dead, Andrews shot himself' in the head. He died in the ambulance on the way to St. Luke's hospital. Miss Blaine came from California last Sunday night with Andrews. From letters found in the trunks it is thought she. was a resident of Flora, Ind. The letters told plainly the story of the man's infatuation for the wo man. All the facts in the case go to show that he Killed her in a moment of desperation that came to him as he realized that he could not keep her in the st>Te they had grown accustomed to and that he was in danger of losing her. Andrews deserted his wife and son seven years ago and eloped with a waitress in his restaurant. Later he deserted the waitress when he met Miss Blaine. The murder was a brutal one. Miss Blaine, who was good-looking, wgs ■hot as she sat at a writing desk writing a letter to Andrews’ son, Charles E. Andrews, Jr„ of Elkhart. It is supposed that Andrews; started to dictate the letter. It broke off sud denly, as if some dispute had arisen over the wording Set New Record on Isthmus. Washington.—^li records for exca vation on the line of the Panama canai were broken during July, despite a re duction in the force of employes, ac cording to a report for the month re ceived here. . Judge A. L Williams Dies. Colorado Springs, CoL—Judge A. L. WiUteau of Tepeka, Kan., died here Wednesday morning in his summer home on Pike's Peak. He was former ly general counsel for the Union Pa cific. Promises Taylor Immunity. Frankfort, Ky.—In a letter ad dressed to Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Franklin of this city, bhief prosecuting attorney for. the state fn the Goebel murder cases, Gov. Beck ham assures that official of his co operation with him in - seeing that WUUam S. Taylor is protected from arrest and allowed to, return to the state of Indiana if he will come to the Scott circuit court at Georgetown, this state, to testify la the next trial of Caleb Powers, charged In the murder uwplnwy Cfees. ^ ft FOUR DIE IN AUTO CRASH. Motor Car Struck by Trolley Near Canandaigua, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y.—Dr. George Wald ron, a physician of Rochester; Mrs. Catherine Farnsworth, of Rochester, and Mrs. William Scandling and Mrs. Jane Hobbs, both of Hopewell, were instantly killed Wednesday afternoon in a collision between an automobile in which they were driving and a Rochester & Eastern trolley car. near Canandaigua. ■ Dr. Waldron went to Hopewell in the morning with his daughter to visit at the home of William Scandling, and had taken the three women, all of whom were more than 65 years of age. for an automobile ride. They were on their way to the Freshour crossing to meet another friend of the Scand ling family. Witnesses of the accident say that as the machine approached the trolley tracks it was seen by the motorman. According to them, the motorman made a signal and Dr. Wal dron slowed up. Then,- apparently thinking that he could cross before the car reached him, he started on again. It is thought that the automobile did not respond readily to the levers. It was caught on the tracks and the oc cupants thrown with great force. The bodies were frightfully crushed. NEBRASKA MOB LYNCHES A MAN. Hangs Laborer Who Killed Farmer and Wife Last Spring. Omaha. Neb. — Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L. Copple. a farmer, and his wife, near Rosalie. Neb.. May 12. was lynched at Boncroft Monday. Sheriff Young of' Thurston county came to Omaha Sunday night' tp get his prisoner, who had been in the Douglas county jail here since his , capture, and took him to Bancroft on a train which arrived there about *«ight o'clock in the morning. Twen ty men took Higgins from the sheriff, hauled him off in a dray and hung him to a tree. When the sheriff left for Omaha Sunday he was accosted by citizens at Bancroft, who. asked him what he would do if they should attempt to lynch Higgins. “Shoot the first man who tries it,” he said. “Well, we just wanted to know. Chances are you will have some shoot ing to do." Higgins' crime was a wanton one. He had worked on the Copple farm and had some trivial dispute .with.Mr. Copple. Anger over this is the only suggestion of a reason for the murder of the farmer and his wife. He killed both in the barnyard with a gun. He was a young man, and after his arrest became radically religious participat ing in every service held at the jail. QUAKE ROCKS MARTINIQUE. Another Mount Pelee Disaster Feared in the Island. " Fort de France, Island of Martin ique.—Terror reigns throughout this island because'of a severe earthquake which was felt here at 10:50 o’clock Tuesday night. The inhabitants, with the details of the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1903 fresh in their memory, are in a- state of panic, although no damage has yet been reported.' • The similarity of conditions preced ing the frightful disaster of five years ago has caused' an exodus of citizens. In that catastrophe the finale was pre ceded by just such seismic phenom ena as are now prevalent. . Huge inky black clouds are rolling oVer Fort de Prance hi grea,t masses ] in which there are peculiar lightning flashes. Child Convicted of Murder. Oil City, Pa.—McKinley Richmond, a negro, aged ten years, was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Clarion, Pa., near " here, Wednesday. The court ordered him sent to the Morganza reform institute for an in . definite period. ^ , Morocco Sultan Reported Killed. London.—The correspondent of the Tribune at Tangier telegraphs his pa per under reserve a rumor that Sultan Abdul Aziz has been assaasihated In the palace at Fez.s Michigan Professor Is Dead. Ocean Park, Me.—Kingsbury Batch eider, professor of Greek in Hillsdale college. Michigan, died Tuesday at a cottage here, where he was spending the summer. He was 67 years old. Death was due to cancer. | -——- - More Pont at Cionfuogos. Washington.—Five new cases of yellow fever have broken out at Cien fuegos, according to a dispatch re ceived at the war department Tues dhy from Chief Surgeon Taylor, at MarthAsc. Cnha: ..•i;. ‘ -V'jh.V1 ■ > ' JUS IIBOWL GUEST | _ PRESIDENT GIVES LUNCHEON FOR PRINCE OF SWEDEN. OYSTER BAY IS EN FETE Sight-Seeing Trip in Automobiles* Through New York Follows Dinner at the Hotel Astor. New York. — A luncheon with President Roosevelt, an informal dinner at the Hotel Astor and a view of Broadway under its white lights, were the events of the first day's visit to New York of Prince Wilhelm, of Sweden. Incidental to almost ail of these events was a hearty greeting from hundreds of Swedes, who gath ered everywhere to welcome to their adopted country the great-grandson of Marshal Bernadotte, one of Na poleon's famous generals Fresh from a round of entertain ments at Newport and several Massa chusetts cities, Prince Wilhelm reached New York by rail early Wednesday, accompanied by the Swedish minister to the United States, Herman Lagercrantz, and Capt. Klercher, the prince's aide. At the Grand Central station the party was met by Acting Swedish Consul Mag nus Clarholm, who extended the' for mal welcome of the Swedish residents of New York. Oyster Bay En Fete. At the Hotel Astor the prince was taken in charge by Huntington Wil son, third assistant secretary of state, who had been detailed by the presi dent to escort the royal visitor to Oyster Bay. A large portion of the population of Oyster Bay was at the station when the prince arrived, and the little Long Prince Wilhelm of Sweden. island village was gay with flags, prominent among them being the col ors of Sweden. The party was driven immediately to Sagamore Hill, where the president was awaiting them. The luncheon served was an elaborate one. Besides Prince Wilhelm, the guests were Capt. Lindberg, of the Swedish cruiser Fylgia, on which the prince voyaged to America: Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou; John R. Jackson, minister to Persia; Lieut. R. C. Bulmer, U. S. N., commander of the Mayflower, the president's yacht, and Mrs. Bulmer; and Mai. Gen. J. Frank lin Bell, chief Of the staff of the Unit ed States army. The luncheon was entirely informal, and the president and the prince chatted on current topics until they' settled down to a discussion of the training of naval of ficers, a subject in which both are par ticularly interested. The party reached the Hotel Astor shortly after five o'clock and Prince Wilhelm retired immediately to his room for the purpose of gaining a little rest, which the exertions of the past few days made necessary. At seven o'clock Prince Wilhelm , gave an informal dinner in the Orange dining-room of the hotel at which he entertained the Swedish minister and Mme. Lagercrantz. Huntington Wilson and John i». Jackson, minister to Per sia, who will act as the prince's es cort during his visit; Capt. Lindberg. of the Fylgia: Capt. Klercher, A. Kken gren, ■ secretary of the Swedish le gation at Washington, and Acting Consul Clarholm. Following the dinner the members of the party left the hotel in three large automobiles as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Astergren for a sight-seeing trip around this city. Nelson Morris Passes Away. Chicago.—Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died at his home. 2453 Indiana avenue, Tuesday, of- heart disease, aggravated by kidney trouble. Mr. Morris was bora in the Black Forest, Germany, in ■1840, and came to America penniless when he was IT years old, made his way- to Chicago and went to York in the stockyards. H. W. Clark, of Indiana, a Suicide. Oakland. Cal.—Haymond W. Clark, captain of troop H, Thirty-ninth regi ment, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, committed sui cide here by turning on the gas in his ropm. His action was attributed ! tor financial embarrassment. Knabenshue's Airship Bursts. ■ Greenville, O.—Knabenshue's ah--l ship, while 2,000 feet above the fair j grounds, burst at six o'clock Tuesday ! night and dropped like a rocket. The j aeronaut escaped unhurt. - . Texas Man Killed by a Boar. Houston, Tex.—Wagering that he could catch and hold a boar which j was roaming about the streets of Richmond, Tex., Sunday, Adam Haul- j fer, a young man of that place, laid j hold of the animal and was killed. ."T~T*' . Foe of Terrorists Assassinated. St. Petersburg.—(Sol. Ivanboff, gov- j ernor of Vlborg prison and a vicious : foe to the terrorists, was assassinated j by the explosion of a bomb while : walking aloqg one of the streets of St Petersburg Monday. I SIX WEEKS FOR PRACTICE BATTLESHIPS WILL THEN PRE PARE FOR PACIFIC CRUISE. Route for Return Trip Not Settled— Several Commanding Officers Will Be Relieved. Washington. — The Atlantic fleet under Admiral Evans, which sailed from Hampton Roads Monday, will remain for two weeks at the southern drill grounds, 4C miles off the Chesapeake capes, practicing fleet and squadron formation. Then will come the regular fall target practice, lasting probably four more weeks. Acting Secretary Newberry said Tuesday the ships would then go to the navy yards in prearranged order, where, in two weeks, they should be put in perfect condition, the actual start for the Pacific cruise being made about the middle of December. None of the itineraries so far prepared by the navy department is final. If the decision as to route of the big ships is in favor of a return by way of Cape or ' Good Hope the fleet will sail from San Francisco about the end of next sum mer straight away across the Pacific, calling at Honolulu and probably head ing thence.for Australia. If the Suez route is selected, then the fleet will probably, after leaving Puget Sound, swing to the northwest, skirting the coast of British Columbia, and the Aleutian islands, cross the Pacific by the shortest great circle route, which will take the ships close to Japan, and thence to Manila, where they will make a short stop before passing through the Straits of Malacca and entering the Indian ocean. The uavy department will relieve some of the present commanding offi cers of the battleships before this cruise is begun, because they will have already served nearly the full term of sea duty. Officers who have already had two full years of sea ser vice in their present commands in clude Captains Barry of the Kentucky. Herbert Winslow of the Kearsarge and Comiy of the Alabama. ATTEMPT TO KILL CORTELYOU? - i Package Addressed to Him Explodes in Philadelphia Post Office. Philadelphia. — The explosion of what appears to have been a large percussion cap in a package ad dressed to Secretary of the Treasury George H. Cortelyou created excite ment in the Nicetown substation ot the Philadelphia post office Tuesday. The package, which was collected from a box in the northern section of the city, was received by Clerk Rob erts. who says it was about four inches long by two inches wide and three-fourths of'an inch thick. When Roberts brought his steel cancella tion die down upon the stamp the package exploded and was torn to pieces. Roberts was unhurt. The pieces of paper were put together and the package was found to have been addressed to Secretary Cortelyou. Washington, the address having been cut from a newspaper and pasted art the package. Chief Postal Inspector James B. Cor 1 telyou. a brother of the secretary, is trying to solve the mystery surround ing the explosion, though most of the authorities think the package was mailed as a joke. There w*as not suf ficient explosive matter in it to have done injury to anyone. What was in the package aside from the explosive cap the officials will not say. GROSS EARNINGS OF RAILWAYS. Enormous Increase in 1906 Over the Previous Year. Xew York. — The gross earnipgs of the railroads of the United States during 1906, according to the fortieth annual number of Poor's Man ual, issued Tuesday, made the enor mows increase over 1905 of $234,442. 516, The net earnings increased $104, 728,224. "This was done in spfte of a heavy increase in operating expenses due to higher wages and increased cost of material. Over 71,000,000 more peo pie traveled by rail in 1906 than in the preceding year, while the railroads moved 1,610,099,829 tons, as compared with 1,435,321,748" tons in the preced ing year. . The total assets of all railroads are reported as $17,534,381,633 of more than six times the total money in cir culation in. the country. Women May Stop Strike. New York.—The New York papers announce that Helen GOfild, ; Mts Clarence 'H. Mackay and Mrs. J. G Phelps Stakes, representing the wo men stockholders in the Western Union and Postal Telegraph com pa nies, .held a secret conference late last -• week on the strike situation, and took action looking to a settlement or the difficulty. After the conference, ac , cording to the printed stories. MisJ Gould cabled to her. brother, George J„ who is in lSurope, to come home at •' once. It is reported that he* saiWd last Sunday. * Fatal Electrical Storm. St. Louie.—Duricg an electrical storm that swept over St. Ixruis Wed nesday and covered a radius of about < 100 miles. Henry Albrecht, aged 14. was killed at the village of Lake in St. Ixruis county, by lightning. Mary Schmitz was badly burned by the bait Fn St. Ixruis two street cars were struck by lightning and the passenger! frightened, but not injured. Trinity Methodist church was struck and dam aged, and the North Market street po lice station was struck, knocking down and shocking Hem. Martin O’Brlen. - British Marriage Ban Raised. ' . Ixrndon.—Marriage with a deceased wife's "sister finally has become legal ized in Great Britain, the Bouse of lords Monday evening having ' passed the bill sanctioning such unions, by !»S to o4 votes. ' Japanese City Is Burned. Hakodate. Island of Yeso, Japan.— Fire broke out Monday morning in the flimsy structures of this seaport, and . before it could be got under control nearly 70 per cent, of the city was in ishw.