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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The Lenora National bank at More
head, KY, has closed its doors.
Gage f. Tarbell of the Equitable,
told of collecting commissions on his
own insurance and offered plan for
improvement of the life insurance
business.
The Frankfurter Zeitung states that
Chile intends to order one battleship,
two cruisers and four destroyers
from German yards, at cost of
SIS 5000, 900.
The Isthmian canal commission will
take adverse action upon the sea lev
ell project, which eight of the 13
members of the advisory board of
consulting engineers have favored.
After one of the warmest contests
ever engaged in by delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor the steamfitters
have been successful in gaining ad-
mission to the Federation.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie NJ.
Shaw has received a conscience
contribution of $500 in an envelope
l''Fitiidl hNN lSDuiSs Ht IllOHCy
will be added TO the growing fund in
the custody of the Treasury.
BY the will of Stephen Salisbury,
which was filed for probate at Wor-
cester, Mass, more than 100000 is
bequeathed to the Worcester Art
Museum. His estate is estimated at
$5,000,0O0.
Rev. j. s. Lord, aged 81, said to
have been for many years the oldest
living alumnus of Yale University,
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. w. J. Tillotson of Laingsburg,
Mich. Rev. Mr.. Lord graduated from
Yale in the class of 1881.
United States Senator J. R. Bur-
ton, of Kansas, indicted on the charge
of having accepted compensation from
the Rialto Grain and Securities com
pany for services rendered in behalf
of the company, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned in the United States
court in st. Louis.
District Attorney William Travers
Jerome, of New York, has filed his
declaration of election expenses,
which he says amounted to nothing,
he having personally spent not one
cent to obtain his election.
The Maltese Cross" ranch, owned
and occupied by President Roosevelt
during his residence in North Dakota,
has been purchased by o. J. Delen-
drecie of Fargo for $4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
PRIEST ExcELS MARcoNI
Invents Faster and Safer System of
Wireless Teleqraphy.

Lieutenant Commander S. S. Robin
son of the bureau of equipment of the
United States navy, with the mayors
of Wilkesbarre and Scranton, Pa,
and many other invited guests, were
present at the first public test OF the
Murgas system of wireless telegra-
ply. The test was conducted between
experimental stations % miles apart
at Wilkesbarre and Scranton. Every
message sent from either station was
accurately recorded at the other. The
messages were sent by the Morse
code at the rate of 45 words minute.
Rev. Father Joseph Murgas, inven.
tor of the system, is pastor of the
Slavok Roman Catholic church of
Wilkesbarre, and has devoted all of
his leisure time for nearly ten years
to the perfection of his system. Su-
periority of speed is claimed for it,
and double tone apparatus prevents
the catching of messages except by
other stations similarly attuned.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
AeRARiAN DISORDERS
Russian Troops Unable to Cope With
Mobs Which Riot and Pillaqe.

The agrarian disorders in the dis
trict of Subzha have assumed such
violence that the troops are unable to
cope with them. The whole northern
part OF the district is in the hands
of peasant rioters, who are pillaging
the estates and burning the harvest
ed crops.
In the Jurieff and Alexandrovsk
districts peasant mobs are demanding
the surrender of the stocks of pro-
Visions and are threatening to set
the torch to the whole locality and
to storm the county treasures.
During prayer meeting in the
Esthonian church at Pernau, Russia,
a crowd of Socialists entered the
church and threw the pastor from the
pulpit. The congregation fled in pam
ic.
The excitement among the peasants
In the central and southeastern pro-
vinces is spreading rapidly, and it is
feared that it will be impossible to
suppress the movement, which prom
ises to develop into a general up
rising, bringing devastation and un-
told horror to the whole country.
AT the end of four days debate
the executive committee of the
zemstvo congress brought in a resolu-
tion in favor of supporting the gov
ernment and Premier Witte. The
reading of the resolution was greet
ed with tremendous applause.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
SIX ARE BEATEN TO DEATH
Mother and Five Children Found
Dead in Their Home.
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH CRIME
Had Left Home and Told Mail Carrier
That Family Had Been Murdered.

Mrs. William McWilliams and her
Ave children, ranging from three to is
years in age, were slain at their
farm home, and the husband and faith
Or was arrested in Independence, Ia,
charged with killing the members OF
his family. He declares himself to be
innocent.
A dairyman called for milk at the
McWilliams farm shortly after noon,
On entering the house, he says he
found a partly cooked dinner on the
stove and Mrs. McWilliams and the
Ave children dead on the floor.
Each person had been killed with a
hammer blow on the head. Mrs. Nc
Williams was atrociously beaten, and
a few knife thrusts had been inflicted
on the crushed body. In the womaa's
rigid arms lay the corpse or the
three-year-old baby its hood,~coat and
mittens on, and a piece Of buttered
bread in one hand. The baby had
been killed by one blow Of hammer
on the head.
ZZkll- ozlEWd mfwyp mfwyp mfwy
The other children lay about the
house, dressed in working clothes.
Only the wife and daughter, 16 years
old, seemed to have resisted, each sus-
tanning knife wounds in the hand.
The dairyman called the sheriff.
McWilliams could not be found about
the farm, but a suit Of clothes said
to be his was found smeared with
uhot ic cold RI ha hlOOd
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
DuNS WEEKLY SUMMARY
Steel and Iron Mills Continue Active.
Buyers are Preparing for the
Enfnre

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly Review
of Trade" says: Fundamental condi-
tions are unchanged, although higher
temperature at many points again
checked retail sales OF heavyweight
wearing apparel and other seasonable
merchandise. Labor conditions in
the building trades have not improv-
ed, and another serious struggle may
occur which would be most unfortu-
nate in view of the large operations
under way and contemplated. Other
wise the situation is satisfactory, with
mercantile collections steadily inn
proving. Holiday trade gathers i'm
petus as the season advances. Com
parisons with last years figures con-
tinue favorable, this weeks gains be-
ing swelled by the holiday year
ago.
Leading industrial undertakings re-
port little idle machinery and there
is less complaint regarding car short
age, railway earnings thus far avail
able for November exceeding last
years by GA per cent. Foreign com
merce at New York for the week
showed a loss of 81 ,0S9 ,032 in exports
and a gain Of S53, III in imports as
compared with the same week last
year. 1t is customary at this time of
year to find a general Quieting down in
the iron and steel business, but nor
NAL conditions do not prevail this
season.
Although the leading interests have
prevented any sensational imitation
of prices, all divisions of the market
have hardened sufficiently to acceler-
ate the operations of consumers who
believe that it is the part Of wisdom
to prepare for future requirements.
Failures this week numbered 22S in
the United States against 205 last year
and "a in Canada compared with 80
a year ago.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
NO CABINET CHANGES
Moody, Shaw and Hitchcock All
Agree to Tarry Awhile.

NSicc " AIRY awhile.
AT the request of President Roose-
velt Secretary Shaw agreed to remain
in the cabinet at least until the end
of the coming session of Congress and
as much longer as he can find it
agreeable to do so. Attorney General
Moody, also at the request of the
President, has agreed to remain until
the end of the present Congress,
March 9, 1907. Secretary Hitchcock,
too, agreed to remain for an indefi-
mite period.
This means that for at least six
months there will be no changes In
the cabinet on account of matters
now pending. The names of all the
cabinet officers have been used in
connection with prospective retire
ments, 1t being understood generally
that Mr.. Shaw desired to leave the
cabinet for greater freedom in pro-
noting his candidacy for the Republi-
can presidential nomination in 1908.
No intimation is given Of the iden-
tity of the successors to Mr.. Shaw,
Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Hitchcock.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
SOLDIERS IN GOMEL REVOLT
Battalion of Reservists Demands
Better Rations.
NEWSPAPER OFFICE HELD UP
Armed Socialists Compel Employees to
Set up and Print the Work.
mems Gazette.

Private advices received at st.
Petersburg from Gomel, in the gov
ernment of that name, says that a
battalion CT reservists, thousand
strong, mutined, following a demand
for better food.
Vice Admiral Birileff, minister os
marine, closed the new admiralty
yards owing to the demands of the
workmen for an eight-hour day.
The cabinet has drafted a series
of measures to protect the right of
individuals against the coercion and
tyranny of the labor leaders, which
in the event of another strike, will be
placed In operation during the inter-
i'm until the national assembly meets.
The minister of justice. M. Manukhin,
has drafted habeas corpus law for
submission to the cabinet.
The "Novo Vremya" was the victim
of a remarkable hold-up by Social
reyolutionaries. Three editors of the
"Workmen's Gazette" the official or
gan of the worllingmen's council, en-
tered the composing room of the
'Novoe Vremya" with revolvers in
their hands and compelled the COM
positors to set up their paper, making
prisoners Of such persons as entered
the room. Later, descending to the
press room, the visitors compelled
the pressmen to run off so 700
copies of the "Workingmen's Gaz-
ette."
The immediate question confront
ing the cabinet is the electoral law.
Premier Witte and his colleagues have
almost reached the conclusion to base
the elections practically on universal
suffrage.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
AMENDS CIVIL SERVICE RULES
Will Make Laws Conform to the
Changes Recently Made.

The President has issued an exc
cutive order amending the civil SER
vice rules in substance to conform to
his recent order relative to the dis
missal OF employees in the classified
service without hearing by direction
of the President or head of an execu-
tive department. AS laid down in the
rule which is an amendment to civil
service rule 8, this principle is pre-
faced by the following statement:
mo person shall be removed from
a competitive position except for
such cause as will promote the
efficiency Of the service"
Another difference from the order
of October II is the substitution for
the phrase "such removal will be
made without hearing" of the words
"such removal may be made without
notice to such officer or employe."
Another executive order just issued
exempts from examination one exami-
ner of tobacco and one examiner of
tea in the Chicago custom house
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
WoMAN's CORPSE IN TRUNK
Packed in Chloride Of lime-Missing
Nearly Two Week.

What appears to be murder com.
mitted nearly two weeks ago, was dis
covered when the badly decomposed
body of Mrs. John Hammond was
found in trunk at her home in AL
bany. N. Y. The trunk stood in the
fireplace and the body within was
heavily sprinkled with chloride OF
lime The disinfectant was strewn
quickly about the three rooms of the
fiat and the cover of the trunk was
popped open, with the evident idea
of having the odors of decomposition
escape up the chimney.
John Hammond, the woman's hus-
band, has not been seen for nearly
two weeks. He was 20 years old, the
wife 81. There were no marks of vio-
lence on the body, which, when found,
was fully clothed except shoes. The
body was bound in position with
Clothesline
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
FEAR MUTlNY OF PRISONERS
Strong Enmity Said to Exist Between
Russian Army and NAVY.

1t is reported in Tokyo that Russia
apprehending a mutiny of prisoners
on board the transports conveying
them from Japan, asked the Japanese
government TO convoy them with war
ships to Vladivostok. But the Japan
ese declined to do so. Strong enmity
between the members of the army and
navy on the vessels is said to exist.
Admiral Rojestvensky is reported to
be keeping his cabin on the Boroneji.
Gen. Danielof, who came to Toyko
prisoners, has left in haste, for
Nagasaki.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
DECISION AGAINST RAILROADS
Court Sustains Classification of In
terstate Commerce Commission.

terstate Commerce Commission.
The authority of the Interstate
Commerce commission was upheld in
a decision filed by United States
Judge Thompson, at Cincinnati, in a
case brought by Proctor & Gamble
against the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, the Pennsylvania, the Big
Four and the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern railroads. Prior to the
protest against freight rates filed by
Proctor e Gamble with the Interstate
Commerce commission the railroads
listed carloads Of soap for the pur-
pose of classification in the sixth
class and lots less than carload lots
in the fourth class. Next the rail
roads placed the carload lots in the
fifth class and the lesser bulk at 90
per cent. less than third class. This
change in classification brought out
the protest upon which the matter
went to the Interstate Commerce COM
The commission held that the
in carload lots was
proper, but that the change of frac-
tions of carloads was improper and
ordered the railroads to desist on that
point The railroads refused. The
Attorney General ordered District
Attorney Mcpherson to bring suit
against the offending common carri-
ers. The result is the Interstate Com
merce commission is sustained, and
injunction issues against rates on
lots,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
PRISON OFFICERS KILLED
Five convicts Attempt to Escape
from Penitentiary.

In desperate attempt to escape
from the Missouri State penitentiary
five convicts fought for freedom with
weapons and nitroglycerin at the pris
on gate, killing two prison officers and
wounding Deputy Warden See, and
four men made a dash through The
streets of Jefferson City under fire,
only to be captured after two of the
runaways had been wounded.
Taking advantage of the absence of
Warden Hall and six guards, who left
with II colored prisoners for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, five attempted to
escape, but only four left the prison
after wrecking the gate.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
FATAL COLLISION
Engineer Killed and Five Others
Injured.


One trainman was killed and five
others injured in a wreck on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Thompson
town. The wreck was caused by a
rear-end collision between two
freight trains going west. The mail
train leaving Harrisburg at 4:40 a.
m. ran into the wreckage blocking
four tracks and delaying traffic sever
al hours.
E. G. Huntzberger of Harrisburg,
a freight brakeman who had just been
promoted to flagman, was killed. The
injured are: William E. Moore and
e. D. Dunn of Altoona, engineer and
firemen of the freight train; David
Johnson of Harrisburg, engineer of
the mail train; G. w. Baker of Far
risburg, conductor of one of the
freight trains, and Clarence Edmond,
a Pullman porter, None is seriously
injured.
All the coaches Of the mail train
were wrecked, but no damage was
done to the mail.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Boston Wool Market.

Trade has been irregular in the
wool market. Leading quotations fol
low; Ohio and Pennsylvania-XX and
above, 35@3Gc; No. /. 4O641c; No.
., 40041c; fine unwashed, 2S@29c;
quarter-blood, unwashed, S4G35c;
-elghths-blood, 34@35c: hall
blood, 34@35c; unwashed. 30631c:
,31M32c; fine washed
97@37kc. Michigan-F Fine unwash-
ed. 27@2Sc; quartorblood. unwashed,
$50 34c; three-eighths blood. 33034c;
half-blood, 3303lc: unwashed. 2Sc.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
FOUR BLOWN TO DEATH
Laboratory Of Powder Plant Destroy.
ed by Explosion.

Four men were blown to pieces by
an explosion at the laboratory of the
International Smokeless Powder and
Chemical Company at Parlin, N. ].
The dead; John Pierce, Frank
Spratford, John Applegate, j. w.
Redpath, superintendent of the labo-
ratory.
What caused the explosion will
never be known, as only the four men
were in the building at the time.
The next building, a storehouse,
caught fire and was burned.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
$4,000 GOLD DUST STOLEN
Cashier of the Seattle Assay Office
Charged With Theft,

George Edward Adams, for seven
years cashier of the United States as
say office, in Seattle, was arrested by
Secret Service officers for the alleged
theft of $4,000 in gold dust, to which
he had access in his official capacity
Secret Service Agent Connell took
$4,000 from Adams.
MIR. Connell says Adams confessed
that he had abstracted more than
100000 from miners pokes since June
last, and substituted sand to maintain
the weight.
Adams was held in $4,000 bonds to
appear for preliminary examination.
Adams denied that $4,000 had been
taken but Agent Connell says the
shortage will exceed $4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
NAVAL CADET ON TRIAL
Court Martial investigates Death from
Prize Fight.

Mdshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr.,
of Lafayette, La, a member for the
third class of the Naval academy,
was put on trial at Annapolis, Md.
before naval court-martial on
charges that include that Of man
slaughter in having caused the death
of Midshipman James r. Branch, Jr.,
of New York, member of the class
above him, as a result Of prear-
ranged fist fight.
: All the medical officers gave it as
their positive conviction that Branch
died from the effects of the blows he
had received in his fight with Meri-
Wether,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Postal Elevenue Increasinu.

The annual report of the auditor of
the U. S. postoiIice department for
the year ended June 80, 1905, shows
the fiscal operations of the depart
ment to have been as follows: Reve-
nues of the postal service, $125,S26,-
5S5. Expenditures of the postal
service, $167, 1893, ,169. Total amount OF
money orders issued: Domestic
$4O1 ,916,214; foreign, $42,50S, ,246. Total
amount of money orders paid: Do
nestle, $i04,S4,974; foreign, s7,150,6S9
Total, $1,176, l30.S79.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
New Japanese Loan s125,oooo, 900.

A new Japanese loan of $125, 100000
will, it is officially announced, be is
sued November 2S. The Rothschilds
of Paris will take $62,5O0,000 and
London $31, ,25O,OOO. The balance will
be divided between New York and
Germany. The issue price will be 80
and the interest 4 per cent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Denver Bank Robbed.

Two masked men, armed with re-
volvers, forced Cashier Gabriel
Jones, of the South Denver bank, in
Denver, Col, small concern, to de-
liver to them $4,000, all the cash in
the safe and fled in a buggy. A
man and a woman, who entered the
bank while the robbers were there,
were made to stand with their faces
to the wall and hands up.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
BROKER is ARRESTED
Charged With swindIing People
Throughout Country.

Stock brokers and owners of unlist-
ed stocks in all parts of the United
States are said to have been swind-
led out of thousands of dollars by
a scheme alleged to have been per-
petrated by R. Levy, a stock broker
with Offices in the Medinah Temple
building, Chicago. Levy was arrest
ed on warrant charging him with
using the mails to defraud.
When arraigned before United
States Commissioner Foote, Levy was
released on $4,000 bonds and the case
was continued until December /.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Demand EmpIoyment.

There was another Poverty pa
rade" in the streets of London, No
vember 20. Some 5000 to 5000 un-
employed men and sprinkling of
women marched along the Thames
embankment to Hyde Park, where
they listened to, speeches and adopted
resolutions condemning charity, as a
cure for lack of employment and de-
manding the summoning of Parla-
ment to initiate works of national
utility. Red flags were seen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Coal Operators Organize.

Bituminous coal operators from
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri,
Kansas, Michigan and Indian Terri
tory met in Chicago and formed a
National organization, which will
combat labor unions in an effort to
put an end to the sympathetic"
strike. Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Kentucky were not represented
by delegates, but it was declared that
they will cooperate with the new Ma
tional organization.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Stand by Old Professor.

The trustees of Boston university
announced the appointment of Prof.
Hinckley G. Mitchell as instructor of
Semitic languages and literature. Re-
Gently DR.. Mitchell was removed
from his chair in the theological
school of the university, after %
years service, by the board of bis
hops Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, for alleged heretical inter-
probation of the Scriptures.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
WANTS BIG sATTLESHiPS

Naval General Board Recommends
Construction of Three Monsters.
Three first-class battleships of at
least $4,000 tons displacement and IS
knots speed, three scout cruisers Of
5000 tons displacement, one gunboat
of the Helena class, and four other
gunboats of light draught, two for
use in the Philippines and two for
service or the rivers in China, witwh
additional torpedo buars and torpedo
boat destroyers, are the principal re-
concentrations of the General Board
of the Navy, to be authorized by the
next congress, which is now under
consideration by the Board of Con-
struction.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
Three Killed.

About 200 persons were arrested in
the Catholic Church of the Holy
Cross at Lodz, Russian, Poland, for
singing patriotic songs. When the
soldiers reached Mikalajewska street
with their prisoners a crowd of peo-
pie abused the escort, and the officer
in command ordered the troops to
fire. Two men and one woman were
killed and four men were wounded.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
SLEPT STANDING
Reason, Says Coroner, for Wreck at
Rawlings, Md.

The coroner's jury, which inquired
into the cause of the wreck at Raw
lings on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
which resulted in the death OF Fire
man Jerry Collins of Oakland, and
Brakeman C. V. Marks, of Clearfield,
Pa, rendered a. verdict that. the
wreck was caused by Engineer Nc
Manamie, of the second train being
asleep.
Engineer McManamie told the jury
that he had been asleep. He said his
train was stopped at Dawson and pro-
ceeded under green block. He was
sleepy and started to eat in order to
keep awake, but went to awaken
until it was too late.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
BOTH ENGINEERS KILLED
Derailment of Erie Train Hurls En-
gine on Them.

The eastbound Atlantic express, on
the Erie was wrecked at Falconer,
three miles east of jamestown, n. Y.
All passengers escaped with a severe
shaking up. Two trainmen were
killed. They were Charles Krieger, of
Salamanca, and William S. See, of
Meadviile, Pa. The train was about
two hours late when it left James
town, and was being drawn by two
engines in charge of Engineer Krieger
and See. At Falconer both engines
and four coaches left the track. The
engines tipped over burying the engi-
neers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-29
No Tail to This Comet.

Professor E. C. Pickering, director
of the Harvard Observatory. received
further information last week by
Professor Schaer of the Geneva OBJ
servatory. The comet is circular in
appearance ald of the seventh magni-
tude. 1t has no tail.