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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
STEEL ORDERS HEAVY.
Pig Iron Also Continued to Be in
Heavy Demand.

The Iron Age says:
Bookings of finished iron and steel
continue on an enormous scale and
thus far this month are nearly up to
the record-breaking rate of September
Pressure in many quarters Is enor-
nous and the plants are provided with
work for long periods. There is a
most intense activity in all directions
In the Eastern steel trade there
has been another outburst of buying of
basic pig iron for delivery during the
winter and fully $4,000 tons have
been taken at advancing prices, with
negotiations pending for at least half
as much more.
The United States Steel Corpora.
ton has secured options at SIG and
$16.5O on practically all the Besse-
mer pig available in the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys to the end of
the year, the only exception being
one lot of 10000 tons he'd h..
chant
A number of fair orders were
booked in steel rails and some ad-
ditional tonnage is looming up. The
structural trade is very busy.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
RUSSIAN STRIKE GROWING
Clash With Officers Results in
Death and Injury to Many.
REVOLUTION MAY FOLLOW
Railroad Men Are Being Joined by
Other Craftsmen-Famine Is
Feared-Dieorder is Spread
ina.

Over half of European Russia Is in
the grip Of the striking railroad men
and the strike continues to spread IN
all directions.
At st. Petersburg. an encounter
took place between strikers and en-.
gine drivers who were preparing to
take out trains. Revolver shots were
exchanged and a number of persons
were killed or wounded.
At Ekatrnosaf, two bloody conflicts
occurred between the troops and dem
onstrators. Numbers were killed or
wounded in both instances by the vol
leys fred by the soldiers. The dem
onstrators near the municipal build
ings refused to disperse and erected
barricades. Fifteen persons were kill
ed and 20 injured in a conflict between
troops and strikers at the Brlansk
works, where the strikers had erected
wire entanglements. The courts,
banks and other public Offices have
been closed.
The general strike on the railroads
is complete, except in few border
provinces, and St Petersburg, Mos
COW and other large cities are almost
as closely beleagured as if they were
invested by besieging armies. At the
same time the Industrial strike has
assumed large dimensions and the
turbulent elements in several locali-
ties are Offering open resistance to
the troops.
The strike is complete in the great
factory region on both banks of the
Neva above the city and in several
other industrial quarters.
Forty thousand men are out, but
they are conducting themselves in a
most orderly manner. The store
clerks union proclaimed two weeks
sympathetic strike for political reas-
ons, but it is probable that it will be
only partially obeyed
Prudent inhabitants are laying in
stocks of provisions so as to prepare
for emergencies. AS a consequence
the prices of provisions have risen
sharply.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
MANY KILLED IN RIOTS
Great Damage to Property Also
at Santiago, Chile.
TROOPS WERE CALLED OUT
Local Authorities Were Unable to
Control the Mob-Many Arrests
Made.

About 80 persons were killed and
500 were wounded during riotlng in
Santiago, Chile. Troops were ordered
out and with their arrival relative
tranquility prevails and the city is
gradually assuming its normal condi
Llon.
A bitter feeling prevails against
the authorities. The outbreak is be.
lieved to be the work of rowdies who
were encouraged by the absence of
the troops at the maneuvers. The
police force was unable to cope with
the rioters. The officials of the street
railroads estimate the damage done to
their property at about $25O,00O
The disturbances, caused by the op.
position of the people to the import
tax on Argentine cattle continued all
day and did not cease until late at
night when a small detachment of
troops arrived and few shots were
fired The people of Santiago have
occurrences in the city's existence.
Almost everything which could be de-
stroyed has been wrecked, including
the city lamps, public seats, mOnu-
ments and windows everywhere. The
situation as this dispatch is filed is
comparatively calm, but the banks and
all business houses remained closed
all day. Several hundred arrests have
been made. The workmen declare
they are not responsible for the riot
ing, which they say was organized by
rowdies.
Anti-tax meetings which have been
held elsewhere have been quiet. The
local authorities, for lack of energy
in preventing the disorders, are
valueless. The maneuvers have been
suspended and more troops are ex-
pected back to their quarters here in
a short time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

A hotel employe at Bridgeport,
Conn, finds evidence that Cunliffe
burned much money.
The sultan has accepted Algeciras,
Spain, as the place for the Moroccan
conference.
Charles A. Flammer, Republican
candidate for district attorney of New
York, resigns in favor of Mr.. Jerome.
Mr.. Taft positively announces that
he is not a candidate for the presi-
dency.
The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany will appoint committee to in
vestigate itself.
A band of brigands attacked a de-
tachment of Cossacks near the Alyat
railway station. Seven Cossacks
were killed and one wounded. The
remainder of the Cossacks escaped.
The pope instructed Catholics to
refrain from participation in the re-
ceptiol of President Loubet at
Madrid because of Frances attitude
toward the church
Denial was made at Washington
that Comptroller Ridgely intended
coming to Pittsburgh to take charge
of the affairs of the Enterprise Ma
tional bank.
Insurance investigation reveals the
fact that enormous sums are paid to
newspaper syndicate for sending
out kilograms favorable to the in
surance companies.
Samuel c. Wilkinson, charged with
embracery in attempting to influence
a juror during the trial of Police Cap
tain James Wilson, for grating in
Allegheny, Pa, pleaded guilty before
Judge Marshall Brown in Criminal
court.
Miss Sarah Poole, of New Castle,
Pa, was awarded $1,000 by a jury in a
suit for damages against the city for
injuries alleged to have been caused
by a defective gutter.
John B. Mclaughlin, convicted Of
second degree murder for killing his
neighbor, William j. Hemphill, In
Clinton township, Butler county, Pa,
last May, has filed motion for a new
trial.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Life Sentence for BIuebeard.

E. S. Blydenberg, Iowa's modern
"Bluebeard" Sunday school teacher
and phiianthropist, must serve a life
sentence for the murder of his third
wife. The Supreme court decided that
his conviction was illegal and affirmed
the sentence of life Imprisonment.
Two years ago, at Eldora, Blydenberg
was convicted of numbering his third
wife by giving her arsenic in the Sun
day dinner he had prepared while the
rest of the family was at church. Two
other wives had also died mysterious
ly some years ago, and Blydenberg
had obtained their property.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
EMPERoRs ARE GRATEFUL
Nicholas and Mutsuhto Again Thank
President Roosevelt.

Formal, but none the less hearty
expressions of thanks from the Rus
sian and Japanese emperor's mes
sage is contained In the following
instruction to Baron Rosen, the
Russian ambassador.
"The Russian ambassador is order
ed to express to the President In the
sincere satisfaction experienced by
name of the emperor the feelings of
his imperial majesty at the re-estab-
lishment of peace for the good of all
peoples and their further prosperity.
At this historical hour his august
sovereign cannot but recollect with
sincere pleasure the efforts put for
ward by the President in order to
cooperate in the attainment of that
great result. These efforts have been
the more highly appreciated, as they
entirely responded to the sentiments
of friendship and regard which ami
mate his imperial majesty toward the
President personally, aad toward the
American people"
The note from the japanese EN-
peror reads: "The formalities neces-
sary to bring the treaty of Ports
mouth into full force and vigor hav-
ing been accomplished and peace
having been definitely re-established
between Japan and Russia, | desire
again to express to you my very
high appreciation of your distin-
guished aid important services in the
cause of peace and also to thank
you most sincerely for the gracious
hospitality to my plenipotentiaries
by which they were enabled to per-
form their important labors under
the most favorable auspices"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
GOVERNMENT TAKES CHARGE
Sends Representatives to Enterprise
Bank of AlleuhenX

The department of justice at Wash
ington announced it had taken charge
of the investigation of the Enterprise
National bank of Allegheny, Pa. The
determination of the attorney general
has been kept secret, largely because
of the fear that the inference would
be made that evidence 'has been Sc
cured which will warrant criminal
prosecution of some of the parties con-
nected with the bank. The real pur-
pose of the district attorney in taking
charge of the matter, it is stated, is
to keep advised of the progress of
the investigation and be prepared to
take any action that the evidence
should warrant.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
RAINS BAD FOR COTTON
Picking Progresses UninterruptedIy
In Eastern Section.

w GoStSii' SNNh'Ni's
The United States weather bureau
issued a weekly cotton crop report as
follows:
In the cotton belt the forecast of
the week ending October %, was un-
seasonably warm and the latter part
decidedly cool, with frosts, more or
less damaging, in every State. Heavy
rains were detrimental over an area
extending from south-central Texas to
western Tennessee, while no appreci-
able amount of rain fell in western
Texas, and over large part of the
East gulf and south Atlantic districts.
In the eastern portions of the belt
cotton picking has progressed uninter-
ruptedly. 1t is finished in southern
Georgia and nearly so in Louisiana
and Alabama, except in the northern
portion of the last named State. 1t
is also nearly completed in southern
Texas, and with the exception of the
sea island crop in South Carolina In
Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma
and Indian Territories, picking Is
from one-half to two-thirds completed.
Heavy rains interrupted picking and
caused considerable damage to open
cotton in central and northeastern
Texas and portions of Oklahoma and
Indian Territories, Arkansas, western
Tennessee and extreme northern
Mississippi Boil weevils continue
numerous in Texas and the western
parishes of Louisiana
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
PRESIDENT IN COLLISION
Accident Took Place Soon After
Leaving New Orleans.
NONE ON BOARD INJURED
Confusion of Signals Given as Cause
for the Accident-Mr. Roosevelt
Now on Way Up Coast.

President Roosevelt's trip through
the southern states ended at New Or
leans. There, as at all other places
on the route, he was enthusiastically
received by the people. After a day
of continuous entertainment in the
Crescent City, he boarded the light
house tender Magnolia from which
he vas TO have been transferred to
the Armored cruiser West Virginia.
The Magnolia collided with the
fruit steamer Esparata and was dam
aged, so much that another light
house tender had to be brought into
service, and on it the President
continued down the river to the West
Virginia on which the return to Wash
ington will be made
Neither the President nor any
member of his party was injured in
the accident.
The following report of the acci-
dent was received by wireless tee-
graph from the West Virginia.
At II o'clock in the evening
through confusion of signals, the fruit
steamer Esparta collided with the
lighthouse tender Magnolia, which
was conveying the President, Secre-
tary Loeb and DR.. RiXey to the
cruiser West Virginia. The rail and
port bow of the Magnolia was dam
aged and two or three holes made in
the hull below the water line. No
one was hurt, the Magnolia immed-
lately on being struck was beached,
her bow being high and dry. After
careful examination Of the damage
to the vessel it was evident that there
was no danger and the President and
his party went to bed. Maj. Craighill
of the United States engineers, was
aboard the Magnolia, his ship, the
Ivy a sister ship of the Magnolia,
had preceded the Magnolia and was
some distance ahead. A boat was
Immediately put off for the nearest
telephone, about a mile and a half
away, and the order given to head
the Ivy off at Pilot station and have
her return for the President and his
party. The transfer was made at 3
o'clock in the morning. The YES
sci got under way Immediately, and
the West Virginia was boarded on
schedule time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
MATE PROBABLY MURDERED
Four Men Wounded as the Result of
Trouble With Crew.

Four men were badly wounded in
series of battles between the offic.
ers and crew of the lumber schoon-
er Ida B. Gibson, of Seaford, Del,
and afterward between Milton Cor
derry, the cook of the Gibson, and
the New York police. For an hour
about daybreak, the cook armed with
a shotgun, stood off the police re.
serves of the Delaney street sta
tion and wounded a detective and
night watchman.
Frank B. Medley, mate of the Glib
son, is missing and may have been
murdered by the crew of the Glib
son, who were compelled to pump
the leaky craft all the way from Nor
folk, Va, to New York. due to her
having been run aground. The men
mutined en- route, but were cowed
On arriving at New York the Gibson
tied up at Pier 55, East river, and the
crew were paid off and discharged.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
BUSHES }ourLook BRIGHT
Railways, Although Purchasing New
Equipment, Are Unable to Re-
lleve Freight Congestion.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says: Almost without ex-
ception reports are favorable regard
ing the Nations commercial progress.
A needed decline in temperature has
stimulated distribution OF wearing
apparel and other seasonable mer-
chandise, relieving anxiety that heavy
stocks would be carried over at the
are receiving supplementary orders
in these lines, but as Il rule duplicate
business has not become general.
Production and consumption OF
steel Is at Il new maximum without
the unsetling influence of return
to the inflated prices of few years
ago. The railways have been pur-
chasing new equipment freely, yet
there is the usual delay in moving
freight that is apparently becoming
inevitable at this season Textile
mills are we'll occupied, although the
labor situation Is more uncertain
and the teamsters' strike had tend
ency to interrupt business. A sharp
advance in prices of leading farm
staples was accompanied by the
greatest activity of the season in
option markets, and the average of
the 60 most active railway securities
established new high water mark
although the outside public was not
a prominent factor.
Railway earnings in October were
6 per cent. larger than last year,
and foreign commerce at New York
showed gains of $2,537,6O in exports
and the same week of 1904 Failures
this week numbered 2l0 in the United
States, against 233 last year, and 25
in Canada, compared with 2S a year
ago.
Bradstreets says: Activity, in fact
buoyancy, still characterizes practi-
cally all lines of trade and industry
Industry retains the lively appear
ance noted for some time past. In
railway lines the efforts making to
handle the immense business Offering
are such as were never put forth
before. Features deserving note in
the iron and steel trade this week
are the very liberal orders placed
for cars and other rolling stock
which have been covered by sales of
bars, billets and crude pig iron, the
latter being relatively more active
at the East.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
PRESIDENT is ALERT
Sees Man in Birmingham, Ala, Drop
Pistol-Notifies Officer.

Pistol-Notites Officer.
President Roosevelt, on his visit to
Birmingham, Ala, was given a gener-
GUS and hearty welcome by the
people. While en- route to Capitol
park an intoxicated man on the side
walk dropped pistol and the Presi-
dent called an officers attention and
the man was placed under arrest. The
ovation was almost continuous.
The President spoke from a stand
to a large gathering of people. He
also spoke at the Alabama State fair
grounds.
The President reached Tuskegee,
Ala, and was escorted to the Alabama
M. e. Conference Female college, where
he addressed the students and public
school children, having as platform
100000 worth of baled cotton.
The President was then driven to
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
school, of which Booker T. Washing
ton is the head, where he reviewed a
parade of students. He spoke to a
crowd in the chapel.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Nine. Lillian Nordica will soon be-
come the bride of Capt Joseph R. De
La Mar, the wealthy owner of the
Idaho silver mine that bears his name.
The International Live Stock Show
at Chicago, which was scheduled for
the first week in December, has been
postponed until the week commencing
on December 16. Inability to procure
the structural steel for the new ex-
position building caused the postpone
ment.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
WANTS NO MORE WAR
Reason Why Japan Has No Desigsns
Upon Philippines

Eki Hloki, first secretary of the
Japanese legation in Washington, de-
livered an address before the Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce that is
considered the first official uttera1ce
from Japanese source concerning
the situation in the Far East.
The speaker dismissed the yellow
peril question by saying it had lost
its hold in mems minds, particularly
in America; that Japan had no designs
on the Philippines, because the mika-
do did not want war with the United
States; that members of the Manchu-
rian army are needed at home and will
not emigrate to this country, and that
Japal's influence in China will be
beneficial to the whole world.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
NO MERCY FOR RIOTERS
Russian Authorities Take Measures
to Stop Trouble

A message from Warsaw, says:
The governor general has ordered
the troops to shoot every agtator
caught armed. The police have ord
cred all shops to be closed at Z
o'clock, and all persons appearing
on the street after o'clock at night
will be arrested and searched. The
military are guarding the street corn
ers.
The governor at Lodz has ordered
the officers in the event of distur-
Dances to act without mercy. The
employees of all the local factories,
street care lines and the suburban
railroads have struck.
At Riga, the strikers here have
plundered a gun shop and seized a
number of rifles and revolvers and
a quantity of ammunition.
Similar reports come from many
ether towns.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
BLACK HAND BUSY
Dynamite Placed on Steps Of a Tene-
mcnt House,

The seven-story tenement house on
the corner of Grand and Mott streets,
New York, was shaken by an explosion
of dynamite which had been placed
on the steps of the butcher shop on
the ground floor. The explosion
threw the hundreds of tenants in the
building and in the houses adjoining
into a panic.
DR.. Vincenso Sellaro, who has an
office and apartments in the building,
informed the police that the dynamite
probably was meant for him. He said
that he had received several threaten
ing letters. the first demanding S5.-
900, and the others ranging down to
500. Finally one came telling him
that he must not think he was for
gotten and that he would yet feel
"the mighty vengeance of the Black
Hand"
One Italian was arrested on snspic-
ion of being concerned in the ex-
plOsiOn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Railroad Casualties,

During the IL months ended June
80, 1905, $50 persons were killed and
1878 injured as the result of acct
dents on railroad trains, according
to a report of the interstate COM
merce commission. Comparison with
1904 shows an increase of IL killed
and 4,123 injured among passengers
and employees, the increase in killed
being wholly among passengers.
while the number Of employees killed
shows decrease of LOG.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
CUNLIFFE coNFESSES
Admits Guilt and Asks Mercy of the
Court.

Edward George Cunlffe, the Adams
Express clerk who absconded from
the company's Office at Pittsburg,
October 8 with $1O1 900, and who was
arrested 10 days later at Bridgeport,
Conn.,. pleaded guilty before Judge
James r. Macfarlane in Criminal
court to two charges of larceny. The
plea of Cunliffe came as a surprise, as
he had not been placed on the trial
list and true bills had only been re-
turned against him by the Grand
Jury two days before. Cunliffe was
not represented by an attorney when
he entered mis- plea, but stated he
wanted to .hrow himself on the mercy
of the court
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
BIOLOGIST HANGS HIMSELF
Former Professor at Georgetown
Just Released From Asylum.

Professor Sylvester Dwight Judd
aged 35, formerly an assistant in the
United States Geological Survey at
Washington and professor of biology
at Georgetown University, was found
hanging by rope from a rafter in
the garret of his home on the old
Frederick road, having committed
suicide.
About year ago Professor Judd,
owing to mental trouble, lost his Gov
ernment position. He was sent to an
asylum, and after being treated for
melancholia and homicidal mania
about ten months appeared to be
much improved and was discharged
two weeks ago That he had con-
templated suicide was known.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Steamer kaIiYuna Wrecked.

Telearams have been received from
the captain of the steamers Centurian
and Frontenac, which have been
searching for the missing steamer
Kaliyuga, saying they had covered
the entire east and north shores Of
Lake Huron without seeing or obtain
ing any trace of the long overdose
vessel 1t is now practically certain
that the boat, with II persons, went
down during the great storm of last
week.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
PACKERS FILE PLEAS.
Attack the indictments Secured
Against Them by Government.


Against Them by Government.
Declaring that testimony the pack
ers were compelled to produce be-
fore the secretary of commerce and
labor and submitted to the Pre5i-
dent, after an investigation ordered
by Congress, was used by United
States District Attorney Morrison in
obtaining an indictment against the
packers and alleging that inasmuch
as the same issues as mentioned in
the indictment were raised and dis
posed of in an injunction writ is
sued by Federal Judge Grossup, the
packers, who are under Federal in
dictment at Chicago charged with
illegal conspiracy, attacked again
the famous so-called beef trust
process. A special plea in bar and
and additional special plea in bar
were filed by counsel for the pack
ers. The special plea declares that
under the laws of the United States
this defendant, cannot be prosecuted
or subjected to any penalty or for
feiture for or on account of the
respective transactions, matters or
things, or any or either of them,
which are in said indictment or any
count thereof.
Dismissal is asked.
Samuel A. McRoberts, agent of
Armour e Co., filed separate spec
ial plea in which he seeks immunity
because he testified before the grand
jury, which afterward returned an
indictment against him. This plea
is held to be good by many and will
likely result in the indictment being
quashed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
FLYER Piows Throuoh Wreck.

The Pennsylvania railroads 1S-hour
"fyer" narrowly escaped being
wrecked at the Greensburg passen.
ger station. A freight train had
buckled on the steep grade, piling the
wreckage of two ears between the
tracks. An effort was made to flag
the flyer" but the danger signals
could not be distinguished on account
of the heavy fog, and the fast train
dashed through, knocking the wreck.
age from the track.