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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
A MARROW ESCAPE.
Train Saved from Plungng Into the
Potomac River,

The Chesapeake and Ohio passen-
ger train which left Washington City
at 11:22 o'clock Sunday night for Gin
cinnau, met with a serious accident
on the Long bridge which spans the
Potomac river and connects Washing.
ton with the Virginia shore. About
one-third Of mile from the Washing
ton end of the bridge is a draw $50
feet in length. As the train was pass
ing over this draw, the northern half
of it gave way and precipltated the
tender and dead baggage car imme-
diately following it into the water A
huge girder, which formed part of
the draw, fortunately jammed up
against the mail car following the
dead baggage car and helped to keep
it and the remaining cars of the train
from going into the river. No one was
killed but Fireman John Woods, of
Charlotte. N. c., received severe
cash in the face.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

All the mills at Minneapolis ad-
vanced flour 10 cents per barrel on
Saturday, and they are all away back
on their orders; It is not likely that
they will be caught up before the first
OF December. Plttsburg dealers are
nearly all short of spring wheat pat
ents, and will not be able to fill their
orders fully for some time to come.
The Lackawanna Steel Company has
successfully inaugurated work in the
Bessemer department Of its new plant
at Buffalo.
The coal companies of the Pennsyl-
vanla Railroad Company will, after
January 1, 1904, do away with middle
men and sell directly to the coal trade.
The Fischer Foundry & Machine
Company, of Pittsburg, which has re-
Gently completed and put in opera
ton fine new plant along the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie railroad below Nc
KEGS Rocks, has branched out its bus
mess by the purchase Of plant in
Cincinnati, o.. known as the Wals
Punch G. Shear Works. The plant
was owned and operated by C. C.
Wais, of Cincinnati, and the Pittsburg
company intends to enlarge 1t.
According to the department Of ag-
hculture the yield of wheat in the
three Northwestern States this year
averaged 1914 bushels to the acre.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
The Hardest Worked Of soamcn.

The stokers are the hardest working
Of all classes of labor on board steam
Slips. From intimate association with
them in their labor and from knowl-
edge OF low orders OF labor on shore,
can say without hesirution that, as
class, ships lremen and coal pass
o!s or trimmers perform n.1re ardu-
ous and repulsive work than the min
erS in thin veins in the anthracite re-
Sion, the miners in the hot mines of
Montana, the glass blowers of the gas
belt, or the grimy toilers in the roll
ing mills. They receive propcrtionate-
ly less pay. They usually work in
four'hour watches. four on and eight
off. Their location is in front Of the
firing ends of the battery Of ships
boilers or in the bunkers where the
coal is stored, both Of these being in
the very bowels OF the ship. The quar-
ters are cramped, the air full of noxi-
Gus gases, the light, the terrible glare
or The raging fires, and the tempera-
ture ranging from los to 140 degrees
Fahrenheit. The most Jnat even the
Cunard line pays picked fremen for
their mail beats is sac per month. The
American line has its price regulated
at an average of something over $50.
though at times it equals the best
rate.-B. Brandenburg, in Leslie's
Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
SUSPECTS CROSSING OCEAN.
Alleged Murderers of Ferguson to Be
Brought Back for Trial.

Unless the plans of District Attor-
ney Owen c. Underood of Washing
ton, Superintendent OF Detectives
Thomas McQuaide, of Pittsburg, and
other officers on the case go wrong
and justice miscarries, the murderers
of Samuel T. Ferguson, the Wabash
contractor, who was killed at West
Middletown, Pa, on Friday, Septem-
ber %, will be prisoners in the Wash
ington county Jail within few weeks.
Supt. McQuaide stated that the muir
derers of Ferguson would be tried at
the November session of the Wash
ington county criminal court, and that
he had sufficient evidence to convict
them.
Millovar Kovovick and Milovar Pat
trovick, the two Croatians, who the de-
tectives say are the men implicated,
are now on their way to their native
land and will be apprehended and
placed under arrest on their arrival on
the other side of the Atlantic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
REVIEW or TRADE.
Business Fairly Satisfactory, but Alb
normal Activity Has Received
Check.

r. q. Dun & Co.'s weekly Review
Of Trade" says: Numerous labor con-
troversies have appeared, and more
furnaces and mills have closed, the
tendency being to operate only the
plants provided with the most modern
equipment. There Is no anxiety re-
garding legislation at the special ses-
sion of Congress. and, despite the cur
tailment OF activity In many manufac-
turing lines, heavy volume of bus
mess is being transacted Flour mills
at Minneapolis have fully resumed. and
a big seasons cut is contemplated at
Minnesota lumber mills. Jobbing
trade has become more quiet with the
advancing season and at many points
the weather Is not calculated to main
tain buying of wearing apparel at re-
tail Gross earnings of the railways
thus far reported for October sur
pass last years by 6.2 per cent.
Another general reduction In quota
tions Of pig iron has occurred, not
withstanding the restriction of output,
and a movement Is on foot to further
reduce production unless business i'm
proves. New orders are few and linn
tied to immediate requirements, which
is also true of finished steel. Not only
have additional contracts failed to be
offered. but cancellations of old or
ders are reported.
A little encouragement was given to
the textile industry by the placing OF
moderate orders for brown sheetings
to be exported, but this Chinese bus
I mess is of special nature and not
a revival OF regular trade for the East.
Otherwise the cotton goods market is
without feature. AS TO woolens and
worsteds a slight increase in orders
is noted. Closing manufacturers are
not seeking woolen goods. and there
Is still pressure to sell worsteds
that makes prices irregular Silks are
weak and inactive. Large contracts
have been placed for spring shipment
of shoes and prices are somewhat
| hrmer on a few lines. while others are
steady and firm in tone. Heavy hem
lock sore leather is strong. but other
grades decline in response to the gen.
eral weakness of domestic hides.
Failures for the week numbered 279
in the United States, compared with
2S9 last year, and in Canada &C.
against 90 a year go.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
EXTRA SESSION CALLED.
President Sets the Date for Meeting
November 9th.

The President has issued the follow
ing proclamation:
Whereas, BY the resolution OF the
Senate OF March 10, 1903. the approval
by Congress of the reciprocal CONNER
cial convention between the United
states and the Republic OF Cuba, sign
ed at Havana on December IL, 1902.
Is necessary before the said conven-
tion shall take effect: and
Whereas. II Is important to the pub
lie interests of the United States that
the said convention shall become op-
erative as nearly as may be.
Now therefore. Theodore Roose-
welt. President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the power vested
N mo by the constitution, do hereby
proclaim and declare that an extraor-
dinary occasion requires the convening
Of both houses of the Congress of the
United states at their respective
chambers in the city of washington
on the 9th day of November next at
IL o'clock noon, to the end that they
may consider and determine whether
the approval of the Congress shall be
given to the said convention.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
FOUR KILLED.
Locomotive on West Virginia Central
Railroad ExpIodes.

Four persons we're killed outright
and three injured by the explosion of
West Virginia Central engine No. 8,
in the Elkins yards. The killed are {:
William Little, engineer; Henry Col
lett, fireman; John Harper, machinist; I;
Mrs. Kate N. Rabbett.
The injured: Pieter Camareta, a
stone cutter, arm broken and head cut
by flying pieces; George Dougherty,
brakeman. badly shaken up; Mrs. Vir-
ginia Boyd, sister of Mrs. Rabbett, hip
and shoulder badly bruised.
The engine had been in the shops
for repairs and was taken out just
after noon to be tested. 1t had shifted
the private car Graceland and gone up
the track few hundred yards, when
a terrific explosion rent the air, tear.
ing the engine into atoms.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
Prisoner Walked Away.

Albert f. Bell, the mail pouch thief
and forger, who was brought to Phila-
delphia from Denver by Deputy United
States Marshals G.. III. Baker and AL
yah Davis. eluded his guards and is
now at liberty. When the train reach
cd the Pennsylvania railroad station
Davis and Bell went to the toilet
apartment of the Pullman car and
while the deputy marshal was per-
forming his ablutions the prisoner
calmly walked to the platform of the
car. mingled with the crowd Of pas
sengers and disappeared.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
PeriIs Of the Lumbermen.

A crew of seven men were loosen
ing timbers from the rocks above
great cataract on the river Des
Quinze. The nearer they worked to
the head of the rapids the more i'm
minent grew their peril At last the
cautious steersman-a half-breed
named Polson-refused to venture
further the lives OF his crew. The
foolhardy foreman ordered him out,
stepped aboard, and took Polson's
steering paddle. Out from the bank
they shot swiftly, and down the steep
Incline. All went well until they
wished to turn their boat beside the
rocks that blocked the timber, when
TO their CONSERVATION the speed of the
boat slackened. Managing to point
her bow upstream, they rowed with all
their strength. For some seconds she
never moved. Surely the demon OF
the rapids had caught them. With
pounding heart and painting breath,
they tugged with all Their might and
main, but TO no purpose. Inch by
inch, with increasing rage, he drew
them, until, at last, with a deafening
roar he hurled them, boat and all. like
jnvelin, into the very depths of the
gigantic cauldron OF boiling foam
Arthur Heming. in Scribner's.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
CARRIE DIsTURes ELIJAH.
Kansas Woman Tries to Catcchse
DoWie in Public Meeting,


Carrie Nation appeared at the Mad
ison Square hall Tuesday night. got
seat well down toward the platform,
and in the middle of Dowie's ranting
and vilification against his critics, the
eccentric little woman from Kansas
arose and cried out that she wanted
to ask the prophet" some questions.
The shout went up that she was Car
RE Nation. Yells came from the crowd
that she should be heard Dowie
pleaded with her to resume her seat.
He told her that he respected her in
flnitely, and all right, and again beg
ged her to sit down. Then came a
yell: Lets hear Carrie Nation" 81
will not" shouted Dowie. This is
my meeting, not hers"
Thrice again Mrs. Nation asked
Dowie for an opportunity to ask point
ed questions about himself and his
claims. He ordered his guards to
make her take her seat, but when the
end of Dowie's address came he lifted
his hand to pass a benedlction, Carrie
sprang to her feet again. While Dowle
ragged, the saloon smasher OF Kansas
found herself surrounded by thous-
and or more persons, all of them cheer
ing. and as she passed out of the hall
all but one of the Zionists and per-
haps a few hupdred others started to
! follow her.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Albert Jensen pounded Josie John
son, aged 10, to death with the butt
of his revolver at Roseau, Mimi, and
then shot himself dead.
s. e. Morss owner and editor of the
Indianapolis Evening Sentinel" fell
from third floor window OF the news
paper building and was killed.
The French bark Conetable Richie
mont, was wrecked on French Frigate
shoals, In the North Pacific, and two
boats, with IA of the crew, are miss
ing.
Harvard again won the team cham
pionship honors Of the intercollegiate
Golf Association on the Garden City
Golf Clubs links, beating Princeton
by a score OF 211a to 2h points.
Governor Odell, of New York. signed
warrant of extradition on the requi-
sition of the Governor of Pennsylva.
mia, In the case of Elijah Billings,
wanted in Erie, Pa. for larceny.
The Bank of Chatsworth, Ill.,, n pri.
vate institution, has closed its doors
J. II. Brown is president. II had a
paid.up capital of $4,000, and deposits
of $4,000.
The Marconi system of wireless tel.
egraphy was lnaugurated between
Pekin and the coast. Several Chinese
officials attended the sending of the
first message.
The passenger and freight car re-
pair shops of the Plttsburg and West
ern railroad on Kilbuck street. Allie
gheny, were totally destroyed by fire
A loss of between S25,000 and 100000
was entailed.
The trial of James s. Tlllman, who
was charged with the murder of N
G.. Gonzales, editor of the State, In
Columbia, s. c., on January is last
ended In an acqulttal. The jury was
out for 20 hours.
In Butte, Mont. the number of men
thrown out of work by the shutdown
of the Amalgamated Copper Company g
mires is $500 and there are about
1900 more in the same position
throughout the State.
Stockholders of the Illinois Central
railroad authorized an issue of 500.
100000 bonds for the purpose of re
funding the Indebtedness of the com
pany and paying for the construction
and improvement and maintenance OF
its lines of road.
The agitation for a whipping post
In the District of Columbia has been
renewed. Judge livery Kimball. of
the police court. believes the whip
ping posts should be again set up in
the Capitol district for the punish
ment of husbands who beat and main
their wives.
A Turco-Armenian has been con
demned to 10 years hard labor al
Moscow for the assassination of @
Russo-Armenian banker named Jang
aroff, who failed to contribute 5000
roubles to the Armenian national fund
according to promise made by hin
when he was kidnapped in the eau
casus.
simultaneously with the unveiling Of
the equestrian statue of Gen. william
7. Sherman at Washington, United
States Minister Swenson, by direction
of the state department placed {
wreath, bound with the Danish and
Copenhagen Cemetery, of Carl Rohl
Smith, the Danish American sculptor
who designed the monument.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
WAIVED ExTRADiTION.
swindlers Arrested In Canada viii
Return Voluntarily.

Il. ]. Edelson, Joseph Fl. Edelson,
Robert Edelson and Mrs. E. j. Edelson
of Chicago, arrested in Montreal. Can
ada, on a charge of defrauding their
creditors in Chicago of about 100000,
have consented to waive extradition
proceedings and will return to Chi
ago. They have given up all that
remains of the cash they brought into
Canada, s13,545. Fourteen hundred
dollars had been paid by the quartet
for a bakery in the North End of the
city, and 1000 had been expended in
purchasing a half interest in a real
estate agency.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
PlTTSBURe BANKS FAIL.
The Federal and First National Of
AIleuheny Close Their Doors.

Directors of the Federal National
Bank of Pittsburg gave up their strug-
gle to prevent depletion of funds by
excited depositors at midnight Tues
day, called in United States Bank Ex-
aminer John d. Cunningham shortly
after and announced that the bank
would not open for business Wednes-
day morning. 1t was organized two
years ago with capital of s2,O00,OO0
and 100000 surplus The First Ma
tional of Allegheny, the stock of which
had been bought by the Federal, was
also closed on the day after.
The first National Bank Of Ale
gheny was organized in January, 1864,
and has a capital stock of s350,000,
a surplus of 100000 and undivided
profits of $34,S71.S0.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
DEMANDS REFUSED.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Will
Not Increase Wages.

w. w. Atterbury, general manager
of the Pennsylvania railroad. replied
to the demands made upon the COM
pany by employees through the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen. Every
demand which involved any increase
in operating expenses was refused by
the company. On the other points con-
cessions were made where 1T seemed
to the company that the demands
were justified. The chief demand of
the trainmen was for reduction Of
the work day of yardmen from II to
II hours. To grant it, the company
contended, would be virtually to in
crease the pay of trainmen employed
in the yards, and that would entail an
increase in operating cost.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
RED TAPE IN GERMANY.
An Unpleasant Experience With the "a.
lice Of Berlin.

uCe OF boTifns
The ether day had the experience
Of changing houses In Germany, writes
correspondent OF the London Sketch,
II is an experience can heartily rec
| ommend to these who arc desirous of
becoming more intimately acquainted
with the perfected complications Of
German police methods. Before re-
moving from my old fat spont half
an hour reporting my impending de-
parture to the authorities. First, had
to write out particulars OF my various
Christian names (which, unfortunate
ly, happen to be many. Of my age,
place OF birth, nationality, religion,
and Of my number In the registry of
the income tax commissioners. Al
though the police had long been in pos
| session of these particulars, which I
had communicated to them on at least
twenty previcus occasions, It was nee
| esary for me to make three fair copies
| of them and of similar details relating
| to my family. Then came the SER
wants, whose places of nativity ages,
| religions and other marks of identity
| had TO be recorded with equal preci-
sion an equal number Of times. When
7 had finished | gathered the docu-
mcnts into a bundle and despatched
| them tc the police by the concierge.
| My family, my belongings, and my SER
| wants arrived In due course in the new
dwelling, AID as soon as my writing
| room had been placed In order, I sat
! down to narrate afresh the story of
| their birth, profession. religion, nation
ality and taxation number. After the
| requisite number of copies had been
filled up and signed by my landlord I
had them hastily conveyed to the po-
lice bureau. The officer on duty re-
| fused, however, to accept them except
on production Of a copy of the same
details, stamped and authenticated by
the police Of my former parish. With
this copy had unfortunately omitted
to provide myself. | dutifully des-
patched an express messenger to my
evacuated dwelling to repair the omis-
sion, and imagined that | had now
brought my negotiations with the po-
| lice to a successful conclusion.
Alas! I was mistaken, for three days
! later the postman delivered q couple
OF important looking documents. of
which one related to myself and fam
| ily and another to the affairs of the
houselieeper, who comes under a jif-
| ferent set of police regulations to
those obtaining In the case OF ordinary
servants, found that my presence was
required at the police bureau for the
purpose OF supplying answers to long
catalogue Of questions. On this occa-
sion | had to repair to the bureau
armed with big bundle OF birth, con-
firmation, marriage. vaccination, and
other certificates. These were exam
ined and found satisfactory, but they
were inadequate to satisfy the Official
thirst for knowledge. My fathers
age, profession, and place Of residence,
my mothers maiden name and age. l
either gave correctly or approximate
ly. but when the sympathetic police.
man demanded the age and maiden
and matrimonial names Of my mother
in-law, | was fain to confess ignorance.
and did so.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
THREE BANKS CLOSED.
caohiers Confess They Were the
Cause In Each Case.

j. T.. Leimer. cashier of the Prince
ton (Wis.) State bank. has confessed
to having embezzled s69,000 of the
banks funds by forgerles. The bank
has been closed and he has been turn
ed over to the sheriff. He said that he
had dropped the stolen money in grain
speculation. AS he was the largest
stockholder in the Monteddo bank
that has also been closed
The Mapleton (Minn) State bank
was closed because of the disappear
ance of Alfred Buck, the assistant
cashier He left letter saying that
his shortage with the bank was slS,
700 and that he had used $4,000 of
the money of his father, Judge Buck.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
SIXTEEN LABoRERS KILLED.
Sections of Work Train Of the p.
r. r. In Collision.

Sixteen men were killed and 80 Sc
riously injured by a collision Satur-
day between two sections of a work
train near the Washington crossing
of the Belvldere division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, nine miles from
Trenton. N. J.. Among the killed were
James Brown, Bert Burroughs, Jas.
Harris, Giovanni Banpiglio. Saverio
Chiappino, Francesca Focceia. Guisep-
pc Lucidi and Giuseppe Santino. All
were railway laborers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
THOUSANDS LAID OFF.
Company Makes Move to Avert
Threatened Trouble.

Forestaling action on the part of
the $4,000 trainmen ON its lines east
OF Pittsburg in case of a point-blank
refusal to comply with the demands
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, the Pennsylvania railroad has
laid off thousands of employees and
more will follow Not less than $500
and probably 1900, will be discharged
or suspended. By laying off men the
railroad will cut down its monthly
pay roll between s35O,000 and 100000
The statement is frankly made by high
officers of the railroad that the de-
granted.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
Schooner sank in storm.

The schooner Dione, with cargo
of Goldfish, from Fogo for oporto, was
sunk off the New Foundland grand
banks. One man of the crew was
swept overheard and lost. The three
remaining men launched the small
boat and after rowing for SO hours
managed to make landing.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
s1oo,ooo,o 900 FOR THE NAVY.
Congress Will Be Asked to Exceed
Last Years Appropriation.

At the forthcoming session congress
will be asked to appropriate more than
s1O0, 600 for the navy, a sum far
in excess OF that asked for in any pre-
vious year. Last year the department
asked for S79.000,O00. but 1t has been
agreed that the navy must be built
up and in this the President. the Sec
retary Of the navy and the house COM
mittee ON nnaval AFFAIRS are unanimous
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
Dan Fatoh Smashed Pacing Record

DdH FalVH oHd5Icu FdUIHg HeCUTu'
The third day of the harness racing
at the Memphis Trottlng Association
track was made memorable by the
magnificent performance of Dan Patch
in trial against time. The handsome
son Of Joe Patchen made the mile In
1:56A, clipping three-fourths of sec
ond from the worlds record Of 1857,
held by Prince Alert, and lowered his
own record by 2% seconds. The mile
was paced without wind shield and
at the finish Dan Patch seemed as
fresh and vigorous as at the start.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-10-28
TWO Large Failures.

The Maryland Trust Company, and
the Union Trust Company of Balti-
more. have both failed. The Mary
land Trust Company is one of the
most important financial institutions
in the South. The total liabilities OF
the two companies exceed $4,000. 900.