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TO RELIEVE CONGESTION
FACILITIES FOR HANDLING FREIGHT
TO BE INCREASED.
Conference of Pennsylvania Railway
0mciaIs mt Pittsburg-Large sum
of Money to BE spent.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 18.-President A
]. cassatt. Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
together with Second Vice President G. r.
Pugh, Third Vice President s. NJ. Provost
an1 w. II. Brown. chief engineer Of the
company. are In Pitts5urg wrestling with
the freight congestion problem, which has
seriously affected Pittsburg industries for
some time. President Cassatt called before
him the division superintendent and others
who could furnish data of any kind regard
ing the freight congestion in this district.
Blue prints of all the Pennsylvania lines
in the territory were studied in detail, and
though much secrecy is maintained by all.
IT is known that President Cassatt has
been made aware OF the precise situation
here. II is believed he will authorize any
improvement that in his opinion will aid In
relieving the choked condition OF the lines.
At the conclusion Of the conference Mr..
Pitcairn said: THE conference was devot-
ed TO the freight situation. Plans for re-
lief of the congestion by the increase Of
facilities for handling business was con-
sidered. II remains now for the board TO
act upon the plans The PennsyIvanla
means to spend a very large amount OF
money I'm carrying out this work"
Relief for the freight congestion in the
Pittsburg district. which Is considered the
MY - tHt lIOuBitE tdEN anu WtoAs - ~
this statement promised for as early car
rying out as possible. The freight con-
gestion here has been a fruitful source
of trouble for industries of all kinds. Iron
and steel men. wholesalers. grocers, COM
mission men, builders and others have made
bitter complaints about delay of cars, loss
of freights and other ills.
An official OF the United States Steel Cor
poration said to-day: THE congestion is
the worst in the history OF the Pittsburg
district. The conditions have been bad for
81 year and growing worse monthly. With
in the last week matters have grown worse
daily" Numerous other industrial con-
Germs report like conditions.
There is a possibility that the Homestead
and Duquesne works OF the Carnegie Steel
Company. employing about twelve thou
sand men. may be forced into idleness be-
cause of inability to secure sufficient pig
iron for their operation. These works con-
sumo much of the outside supply of pig
iron purchased from merchant furnace
men. Most OF these individual stacks are
closed down entirely or working at about
30 per cent. OF their normal output. Com
plete suspension is not imminent, but i'm
portant departments may close down and
cripple operations at any time.
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GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED.

Dave Mitchell, colored. was hanged at
Mayersville, Miss, yesterday. for wife
murder.
The condition of Marie DRESSER. the ac-
tress, who is i'll at New York. Is said to
have greatly improved yesterday.
Reports from the lumber camps of north
ern Maine show the beginning OF a small
pox epidemic. A camp at Noleb is under
armed guard.
NJ. Cambon, the retiring French ambas-
sador to the United States, laid the corner
stone of the new French Hospital in New
York, yesterday.
Charles Almquist. a freshman in the en-
gineering department of the University of
Wisconsin,, at Madison, who was shot by
John Davenport, a clearinghouse keeper,
died yesterday. Almquist was from Charles
City, Ia.
Capt. Edward Williams, a former man.
ager of the Masonic Temple, recently con-
victed with Luke Wheeler. of conspiracy
to defraud Cook county out of the Temple
taxes, and who has been in hiding since his
conviction, returned TO Chicago yesterday.
Secretary PIERCE, of the Universal Broth
erhood, at Point Iona, Cal, now admits
that Henry Baron. a young man who has
doned the brotherhood. Mr.. PIERCE declares
that Baron was induced to leave by a Sc
cret agent sent from New York.
G. Fl. Neal, an American, head book
keeper and overseer of the Motorrongo
htdI lhO n "ao oAON
and probably fatally wounded by Station
Agent Ferd ~Ferdenandez. in the employ OF
the Vera Cruz & Pacific Railroad. The
shooting is presumed to have grown out of
jealousy.
Charles Benning, of Youngstown. o., shot
his wife in the back and himself in the head
at Cleveland yesterday on a downtown
street. The couple had separated and 1eal-
ousy on the husbands part is believed to be
the motive for the crime. Benning and his
wife are I'm the hospital with the outcome OF
their wounds p"roblematical.
The standing committee of the Episcopal
diocese of Springfield, ILL.,, at a meeting
yesterday, gave consent to the election OF
the Rev. Charles Minnegerode Beckwfth, OF
Galveston, as bishop of the Alabama do
cese. and the Rev. Sheldon Munson Girls
void, of Huddon, Mo-, as missionary bishop
of the missionary district of Salina, Kan.
Bishop James NJ. Thoburn, of the Method
list Episcopal Church, babe his farewell to
New York. last night. on the eve OF his sail
ing for India, at the Metropolitan Temple.
Bishop Thoburn, in departing for a field in
which he began his labors forty-three years
ago, said he expected to find the field very
much changed. He also said that a great
field of labor has been opened in the Philip
pine islands
Acting upon the recommendations of the
examining board, the Naval Academy AGA
demic Board yesterday decided that sixteen
of the forty candidates who took the civil
service examination In Washington last
week were mentally qualified to enter as
midshipmen. Among the number Is Stephen
Decatur, jr., of Portsmouth, N. H., great
grandson of the famous American commo-
dore of thai name.
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CRIMSON SHOWS GOOD FORM.
Practice of the Varsity Shows an I'm
provement in Team Work.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 1S.-Football
at Harvard assumed a much better aspect
to-day. All of the men were out and in
the best of condition for the practice,
which consisted of light preliminary work
for both the first and second teams, in
going through signals and practicing
formations. There was team work on the
part of the varsity, which has been lack
ing. this season. for the runners were
pushed and pulled by every one. The whole
varsity team, with the exception Of Put
nam, was played through the entire prac-
tice period. Shea and Andy Marshall were
the most effective and ripped up the sec
ond teams line without a great deal of
effort.
Although King is not allowed TO play on
either the first or second team. still he
continues to come out and coach. Green
Is devoting all his time to the center men.
Force remained at center on the varsity
all the time to-day, and the freshman,
Carrick. displaced Sugden for the whole
practice On the second team. 1t is very
probable that a part of the practice, at
least, tomorrow will be open.
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Cost of transporta- Wages

Ii will be seen that as our transportation
rates have steadily fallen the wages OF Ia
Dor nave steadily risen. and that. too. In an
almost constant proportion. In the last
fifty years our railroad mileage has grown
from a few thousand miles of scattered ana
disconnected links into a great railroad
system of over two hundred thousand
miles. every mile of which is In connection
with every other mile. equalizing labor con-
ditions and leveling prices throughout the
whole country. preventing either local Fam
inc or local waste Of SURPRISES. This and
the reduction during the same period or our
railroad rates from ga cents per ton per
mile TO So mills. or less than one-nfth what
they were fifty years ago, has enabled US TO
IN the greatest miracle that the
world has ever seen.
During those nifty years our population
has grown from twenty-three millions to
over seyenty-six millions. and over eighteen
million foreigners have immigra;ed TO our
shores. Yet In the face OF this great sup
DIV OF labor. and most OF IL extremely cheap
labor, that has poured In upon US. we have
been enabled to develop our industries and
create such a demand for labor that we
have more than doubled our own average
wages and at the same time delivered our
finished products In Europe so cheaply that
that continent. even after shipping It's sur
plus supply OF labor TO ", has been unable
TO bring about any material increase n In
own wages.
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CREAM OF THE FOREIGN NEWS

The Pope yesterday signed a brief APP
pointing Monsisnor Sbaretti apostolic dele
gate in Canada.
W.. X. Vanderbilt comes ninth on the list
of winners on the French turf In 1902. His
winnings amount to S3.139.
The amount allowed by the American
claims commission. which recently finished
its work at Picking. is sl,6S3.0o0, and the
sum disallowed is Sl,SO4,O00.
The Swiss Bundesrath has appointed
Fernand Du Martheray to be Swiss minis
ter at Washington. NJ. Du Martheray is
now secretary of legation at Rome.
William Duffik. an Irish member of Par
lament (Nationalisp was sentenced yester-
day at Galway TO three months imprison-
ment for conspiracy and Indictment to COM
init crime.
Eighteen Egyptians were killed yesterday
as the result OF an explosion of nitro
glycerin in a magazine situated near the
citadel at Cairo. In addition many per-
sons were injured. though the material
damage was slight.
Royal assent was given yesterday to all
bills relating TO Charles II. Yerkes's tube
railroad plans for London. The bills pro-
viding for the construction of the roads
cover an aggregate of 100 miles of under
ground and surface tracks.
A dispatch from Salonica, Roumania, an
nounces that three violent earthquake
shocks, accompanied by wind of extraordi-
nary velocity, were felt there during Mon
day night. Serious damage was done, but
the populace was panic-stricken.
Generals Delarey and Botha have decided
TO abandon their proposed tour TO the
United States. General Delarey in an in
terview published at Brussels says they
intend TO return TO South Africa 10 meet
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain at Pre-
toria.
Thieves broke into the underground
strongrooms of the banking firm of Pelur-
inho, at Lisbon, and stole $165, 900. One of
the clerks of the bank has been arrested
i'm connections with the robbery. The fire.
quency with which robberies have occurred
recently Is causing general alarm.
An Instruction has broker out in north
ern Siam, owing 10 the alleged exactions
Of the government agents. There have
been several encounters between troops
and insurgents. A number of important
chiefs and many OF the Inhabitants of the
disturbed district nave sought refuge in
French territory.
The seizure by the Berlin police of the
list ryan. for publishing an article strongly
rejecting upon Herr Krupp. the richest
man in m is likely TO be followed by
an extraordinarily sensational trial, as IL
is said to-day that Herr Krupp intends to
bring criminal prosecution against the pa
per.
At a conference in Little Rock, Ark. YES
terday, between General Manager William
Cotter, of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railroad, and n committee rem
resenting the Brotherhood OF Railway
Trainmen, the former granted an increase
of 3 and 4 cents per hour In the pay OF
switchmen employed by that railroad in
Little Rock.
The cholera epidemic at Palestine Is
spreading rapidly. The populations of Gaxa
and Lsdda uudd). have been decimated and
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RUNNING RACES.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The track at
Bennings was sticky to-day. Outsiders
again took five of the six events, Fire
Eater, at 3 to 5, being the only favorite to
win first money. Carbuncle. Extinguisher.
Meistersinger and Ascension on the fiat,
and Judge Phillips over the sticks. were
the others to earn brackets. Winners I'm
order: Carbuncle. 5 10 /; ExtiEguisher, 6
TO /; Judge Phillips, 3 TO /; Meistersinger
10 to /: Fire Eater, 3 10 s; Ascension. 5 TO /.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1S.-Gregory X. dis
gracefully beaten in his last previous start,
met the same horses again to-day lin the
third race at Lakeside and made them look
cheap. The handicap at a male and one
sixteenth went to Hoodwink. Winners in
order: Prue, 20 TO ]: Hornblower. 10 TO 4:
Gregory X, Z TO 10: Hoodwink, 2 to l.;
Chickadee, s TO 5; Lena, 3 TO l.
CINCINNATI, Nov. B.-Despite the slop-
py condition of the track. three favorites
managed to get home in front at Latonia
to-day. Winners in order: SILK Cord. 4 to
/; Foneda. 3 TO /: Bardolph. 3 TO 5; Fonso-
luca, 3 to 5: Flying Ship. to l; The Bronze
Demon, Is TO l.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov: 1s.-Results at
Ingleside, in order: / Do Go, 50 to /; Dun
blame, to 5; Kenilworth. 3 to S: Step
Around. even; Diderot. Z to 5: The Major.
4 TO 4.
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Hi. Liver Infected with Germs.

AM ARBOR, Mich. Nov. 1s.-Professor
Francis Kelsey, head of the Latin depart
ment of the University of Michigan, form
er head of the American Classical School
at Rome. Italy, and author of many Latin
textbooks, lies at the point of death from
a strange affection of the liver. An opera
ton which has just been performed may
save his life. Prof. Kelsey's liver was
found full of cysts infected with germs.
The operation was removing these cysts,
but many of them could not be removed.
The surgeons say that the case is the first
of the sort in the United States i'm nine
years and the eighteenth case known in
the world.
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THE SILENT.


NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Roland r. Moli-
neux and his father were in conference
with their counsel, George Gordon Battle.
to-day. At the close OF the talk Mr.. Battle
made the following statement: Neither
General Molineux. nor his son Roland, nor
any other member of the family, make
any statement In regard TO the report In
the press hat Mrs. II. b. Molineux has
gone to South Dakota with the purpose
of instituting an action for divorce against
her husband. They regard 1t as a private
matter, concerning which no public utter
ance should be made. General Moiineux
desires to say further that all the MEM
bers of his family have at all times treated
Mrs. r. B.. Molineux with the utmost kind
ness and consideration. This is his last
word on the subject"
MIR. Battle said that he had not been
retained to defend the divorce suit.
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Indianapolis Journal.

Special q tnc luuiandpoii0J Ouihdis
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The con-
troller of the currency to-day approved
the American National Bank, of Indianapo-
lis. as a reserve agent for the First Ma
tional Bank, of Clinton. Ind, and the First
National Bank, of Charlottesville, Ind.
Secretary Moody has issued a formal
order directing Admiral Dewey to assume
command of the Caribbean sea division in
the coming m~aneuvers. and has instruct
ed Rear Admiral Taylor. chief OF the Bu-
reau OF Navigation. to accompany the ad-
miral as his chief of staff.
The board of which Rear Admiral Taylor
was president. appointed to select a site
for the naval training station TO be es-
tablished on the lakes, have their report
ready for submission TO the secretary. The
latter will make a special report to Con-
gress on the subject. but will not divulge
the character OF his recommendations until
his report has been submitted.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tay-
Tor to-day set Dec. 10 as the date for final
action I'm the selection OF a federal building
site at Anderson.
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PROSPERITY IN CUBA.


HAVANA, Nov. 1S.-Lionel Garden, the
British minister, I'm a report on the situa-
ton In Cuba. says none of the evils so con-
idently predicted by the advocates of reci-
procity has come to pass. No sugar estate
OF any Importance was compelled to stop.
and the recent crisis. far from being dis
astrous 10 the islands prosperity. has
really been of immediate service to Cuba in
teaching the planters to be economical in
the management of their plantations, thus
lowering the cost of production until il is
thought that plantation expenses will not
exceed 1 cent. per pound. Under the pres
ent conditions, the minister adds, Cuba has
little 10 fear from competition of other
countries in the production Of sugar.
whether cane or beet.
The House of Representatives has elected
Senior Portuondo president OF the Chamber
He Is a Nationalist, with leanings towards
radlcalism. The senior also is IN
in his feelings, and was strongly opposed
to accepting the Plat amendment in the
constitutional convention.
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WOMAN KILLS A WOMAN.
Music Teacher stabbed to Death I'm
Her n House.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Nov. 1s.-Miss Flor
ence McFarlln. aged twenty-one years. a
music teacher, was stabbed TO death In her
fathers house here to-day by another
woman, and an hour later Mrs. Lulu
Young. wife Of Frank Young. at one time
city purchasing agent, was arrested as
being the supposed murderer. The woman
who committed the deed rang the door
bell of the McFarlin home this morning.
and when Miss Florence opened 1T, attacked
her with a knife. Miss McFarlin ran
screaming through the hall into the kitch-
en-. closely pursued by her assailant. In
the kitchen she stumbled, half turning. In
"A flash her pursuer was upon her. and with
a rapid slash had stabbed her five times.
Miss McFarlin sank TO the floor, dying
Instantly. The murderess fled. The only
words she was heard to utter were: 'She
has come between myself and my hus-
band. and I'm glad that she Is dead" The
dead woman was the daughter of a rail-
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Nov. 1S.-The members
of the Elwood polo team, which will repre-
sent this city in the Western League.
reached this city this afternoon. with the
exception of David Tarrant. who has been
here for two weeks. The team will line
up as follows: David Tarrant, first rush;
Larry Schofield. second rush: John J.
Fahey, half back; Charles J.. Lyon. center;
j. w. Whole. goal tender: Michael OMal-
ley. substitute. They will begin practice
at once, and the Anderson team will also
do considerable of its practice here, as the
rink there is not yet completed.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md, Nov. 1S.-Midshipman
Aiken. of New Orleans. who was injured in
Saturdays football game with Bucknell.
was much improved to-day. DR.. j. p. NJ.
F1nny. OF Johns Hopkins Hospital. who was
summoned 10 his bedside early this MORN
Ing. returned 10 Baltimore to-day. He re-
ports that the young man is suffering from
severe injuries about the head, causing con-
vulsions. The latter are not as frequent as
last night. The father and mother of the
injured youth have been summoned to his
bedside.
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Other Deafhs.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. 1s.-John Bell
Bouton, formerly one of the editors of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer and afterward
for about thirty years an editor and pro-
prietor OF the New York Journal of Com
merce. died at his home in this city at
the age of seventy-two years. Mr.. Bouton
was the author Of a number of works or
fiction and of travel. For ten years he
was one OF the editors of Appleton's an
nual encyclopedia.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 1S.-"Charity"
Virgins, the mother OF Blind Tom, the
negro musician, is dead here of dropsy OF
the heart. She was 1O2 years old.
TOLEDO, Nov. 1S.-Robert Cummings, a
prominent wholesale shoe dealer of this
city, died yesterday at the age OF seventy
four.
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BUT ONE MORE GAME.
De PAW Is Not i'm Coco Shape for the
Contest with NOtre Dame.

Contest with NOtre Dame.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE. Ind. Nov. 1s.-With the
hardest game-the Notre Dame-of the sea-
son before it. De Pau has gone into a
slump along football lines, and the result
probably will be fatal to the outcome of
that contest. The game will finish the sea-
son for the present football team. The men
have lost interest in their work and cannot
be made to put the necessary ginger into
their playing. Even though the team may
end this season with a poor game, the
showing IL has made before this, this year.
gives evidence of good work next season.
The line will remain practically intact and
the best Of the substitute backs will be here
again. The team will lose heavily in the abb
sence of Captain Pearson. who has been
playing tackle, and Brown fullback. Enc
Conley will be gone, with Halfback Haw-
thorne, Halfback Davidson and Halfback
McKinstray. For these places there are al
ready on the list Mahoney. Potorff and
Watson, all of them almost good enough
for the team this year.
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John A. Grier.

CHICAGO. Nov. 1S.-John A. Grier. reap
er manufacturer, died to-day at his resi-
dence in this city OF pneumonia after an
illness of ten days. Mr.. Grier took part in
many OF the naval battles OF the civil war,
and after reaching the rank OF chief engi-
neer, retired and engaged in the manufac-
ture OF reapers. Afterward ne went 10 fhi-
adelphia and was chief engineer at the
mint there. He came TO Chicago ten years
ago and had lived here since then.
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.YELLOwv CONGRESSMAN.
Novel Type Of Statesman from San
Francisco

Washington Letter, in Boston Transcript.
There are several interesting figures
among the newly elected congressman, but
none more spectacular. perhaps. than En-
ward ]. Livernash. the Union Labor candi-
date from San Francisco. He Is an incident
of yellow Journalism as IL exists on the
Pacific coast. He was I'm Washington all
last winter I'm the dual capacity OF special
commissioner for one of William II.
Hearst's papers. and worked In the Hobbies
for a new and radical Chinese exclusion
law. To his credit be IL said. he filled both
positions with no little ability His work
for the exclusion bill consisted In pesternig
the very life out of Republican senators
and representatives, n making existence
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Mrs. MoIineux Admits 1t.

SIOUX FALLS, S. d., Nov. 1S.-Mrs.
Roland b. Molineux to-day gave out in
her own handwriting the following state
ment: ut is true that / am in Sioux Falls
for the purpose of instituting divorce pro-
ceedings. 1 have no plans except that L
shall be a resident here for the next six
months"
Senator Kittredge, her attorney. has en-
Joined her not To talk further to news
naDer REPRESENTATIVES,
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A Observation-Disclosures Farmer.

LAPEER, Mich, Nov. 1S.-At the annual
meeting of. the Lapeer County Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company to-day the
reports show a credit OF 1907 entered as
conscience money. Some years ago a
farmer. whose name is withheld, had his
property burned by a confederate and col
lected the insurance without difficulty.
During the past year. however. he became
conscience-smitten and mortgaged his farm
TO restore the money to the company,
pfedging the directors whom he approached
not TO reveal his name.
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FRATERNAL LEAGUE SCORES.
h. of T.. Made an Average of OF
Against BuffalQs,

The X. of p. team in the Fraternal Bowl
ing League made some new records for
that organization last night. In the three
games with the Buffalos they rolled up
seven double centuries. In the second
game they made the high team score Of
the ~league-996. Their average for the three
games was 927. Every member got a
double century and Knox and Peacock got
two each. TIL Elks had a walkover with
the Shriners, only one man appearing. The
scores: p