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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-11-05

San Francisco. Outstanding In
the shadow OF the penitentiary with
sentence about TO be passed upon him
and having seen his beautiful young
wife just led from the court room
hysteerically crying. mo, no.. z. A. S.
Blake the contractor convicted OF at.
tempting to bride John NJ Kelly to
qualify on the jury TO try Abraham
Ruef and vote for Ruers acquittal
made a full confession In court Thurs.
day. He told how. after he was ar.
rested. Frank ]. Murphy, Ruers as
soCiate counsel came to him and
promised him $4,000 II he would keep
quiet. the amount in notes signed by
Ruef, being delivered to a third party.
to be paid Blake. Immediately after
he was sentenced. Besides this
amount. Blake declared that his wife
was 10 receive 500 month while
he was in the penitentiary.
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cree OF the last hour of the day fixed
according TO the ultim8tum by taking
any active measure. He believed thai
this governments has made ample
preparations for any eventuality, and
he added that a statement would
doubtless be issued Monday announc-
ing the position of Holland ana
posed to take.
The opinion is held among Nava,
officials here that no direct steps
would be taken within a week and It
Is understood that the battleship jacob
Van Heemskerck will leave here
Monday following her custom fro
target practice,
The Van Heemskerck and the pro.
tected Cruiser Friensland, which arc
now in this port still have on board
the superfiuous equipments which
would be discarded In time Of war.
The report Is current that Captain
Snethlage who is in command of the
fleet has been promoted to Rear Ad'
miral.
Receives important Telegram.
Saturday evening the governor OF
Curacao received an important tele-
gram from Holland and he at once
called a meeting OF his council and
commander of the warships. Deliber.
lions were lengthy. but the result han
not been made public.
The people Of Curacao are confident
that the ships now here will soon be
reinforced by the battleships Hertog
Hendrix. from the East Indies, and
the DeRuijteer and the cruiser
| Utrecht. from Holland.
The protected cruiser Geldersland
10 also in these waters.
For the past few days there has
been a rumor here that Holland
would send the governor OF Surlnam
| Dutch Guiana) to Venezuela, as its
confidential agent in response to the
proposal made by President Castro
that he would treat with Holland and
with regard to the question at issue
only through personal representative
but no confirmation Of this can be had
and It's truth is doubted.
There is no question. however, thai
Venezuelans believe that the Neither
lands government is preparing e
blockade their ports Advices received
by the steamer Zulla from Maracaibo
state that II was reported on October
"a. that President Castro had ordere;
the mobilization of fifty Thousand
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
Late News
BY WIRE
WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Bonaparte di'
reeted that suits be brought against
many railroads for violation of the
Safety Appliance law.
The State Department denied ru.
mors of friction between Japan and
the United States regarding restric.
ton of emigration.
Figures made public by the Inter.
State Commerce Commission showed
that one trainman out of every one
hundred and twenty-four employed
during the year 1907 was killed by
accident.
Secretary Metcalf signed the order
to put Surgeon Charles F. Stokes in
charge Of the hospital ship Relief
Senator Hansbrough, Of North Da-
kota, has introduced bill in the
Senate setting aside October 10 as a
national holiday, Discovery Day"
Urgent improvements for Ellis Isl
and are needed, and to secure them
Representative Bennett offered in the
House a bill for appropriations
amounting to 100000.
w. E. Chancellor was dismissed az
superintendent OF schools by the
Board of Education for making all
legged statements derogatory to OIL
Gals. II
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
DOMESTIC.

Edwin Collier killed his blind son
and shot himself fatally on his wife's
grave at Ravenna, Ohio.
Federal Judge Kohlsaat, at Chic
ago, decided in favor of the Govern
ment its suit against Oberlin M. Car.
ter for the recovery of securities val.
,ued at upward of 100000, part OF
Carter's loot on the Greene-Gaynor
conspiracy
Albert Moulton and his wife, both
over seventy-five years old, were
burned to death in their home at
Auburn, N. H.
Jumping from the dome of Frazer
Hall at Kansas University, Lawrence
Urban Angney, football star, come
mitted suicide.
The Cripple Creek Central Rail.
road Company passed dividends on
both it's common and preferred
stock.
A Federal jury at Omaha convicted
Perry A. Yeast, a prominent cattle
raiser, of conspiring with soldiers
widows to obtain land fraudulently,
Claiming that he had been shangt
haied at Norfolk and taken to Eus
rope, Joseph Miller, aged twenty-twol
reached New York City, having beer
aided by the American consul AT
Rotterdam.
DR.. Rowe, of the University OF
Pennsylvania, in speech at Anr
Arbor, Mich, voiced the opinion that
Germany had a hold on the South
American republics through its in.
tellectual influence.
At Amherst. Mass, Augustus Ar,
magnac, Phi. D., head of the depart
ment of modern languages at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College.
died suddenly from apoplexy wher
seated at his desk in a recitation
room.
H. o. Havemeyer by the terms OF
his will left all to his family
Charles Wadsworth Whitney, q
banker of New York City, committed
suicide while suffering from insomi
mia due to overwork.
The Boston police arrested F. w
Elliott as an accessory to the murder
of Mrs, Theodore s. Whitmore-
A Department of Hygiene, to look
especially after the health of school
children, was recommended to the
Board of Education by Supt Max
well, of New York City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
CHILDRENCRUsHED T0DEATH|
Sixteen Killed in Rush For Stair Of
Town Hall, Barnsley, England.
Panic Occurred at a Cinematograph
Show-Thirty or Forty Were
az. Hurt, Some Very Seriously.

Barnsley, England.--Sixteen chill
dren were trampled to death and
forty others, several of whom cannot
live, were injured in a mad rush for
better seats at an afternoon enter
tainment given at the public hall
here.
a There was a great crush to obtain
admittance to the entertainment, ard
when the show opened every seat was
taken and the gallery was packed
with children, who filled the aisles
and were dangerously massed against
the lower railing. With view to re-
.lieving this crowding in the gallery
the attendants decided to transfer
some of the children to the body of
the house, and one of the ushers
called out: Some of you children
come down stairs"
hsp Immediately the rush started, and
withinsa few seconds hundreds Of
children were being trampled under
foot. Even those who had seats in
the gallery, doubtless being panic
stricken by the screams and strug-
giles of the crowds fighting to reach
the staircases, Joined in the stampede.
- The cries of the injured and means
of the dying caused wild excitement
among those gathered in the body of
the hall. Police and ushers rushed
to the head of the staircases, which
were strewn with dead and dying, and
with desperate efforts managed to
drag scores of the struggling children
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
F. A. HEINzE INDICTED.
Alleged That He Overcertified Checks
Amounting to 100000.

New York City. #. Augustus
Heinze, former president Of the Mer-
camille National Bank, and former
Copper King was arrested and
held in $4,000 bail by Federal Off
GERS on charges of having violated the
National Banking laws while acting
as president of that institution.
He is accused, in one Indictment
containing fifteen individual counts.
of having certified fifteen checks, to-
falling over 100000, for his broth
er's firm, Otto Heinze & Co., on Oc-
tober IA, at time when that concern
had no such amount on deposit.
In a second Indictment, practically
a repetition of the first, he is accused
On fifteen counts of having misap-
piled the funds of the bank in certi.
flying the checks and allowing them
to go through his institution.
The alleged Decentralization is
pronounced a violation of Section
6208 of the United States Revised
Statutes. 1t carries with it penalty
Of not more than $4,000 fine nor more
than five years Imprisonment for
each offense.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
FOREIGN.

The Governor of the Gold Coasi
Colony is returning from this country
with a new vaccine to check the raw
ages of meningitis in Africa.
Fierce riots broke out in Berlir
when the Prussian Landtag rejected
the demand for manhood suffrage.
Rodolphe Lemieux, the delegate Of
Canada to Japan, said that he be
lieved that his mission had been en-
tirely successful
The rate of discount of the Bank
of Bengal, at Calcutta, was raised
from seven to eight per cent.
Rioters burned the Protestan:
chapel and school at Kia-Hsing-Fu
China.
The career of auto women cal
drivers in Berlin was short lived, the
women proving inefficient and lack
ing in power of endurance.
Captain Deichoff. Of the Russian
navy. was among those awaiting the
arrival of the American fleet at Rio
de Janeiro
The great work of constructing
the Guatemalan ocean to ocean rail-
way has been carried to completion
NY kAlnCflCdlL ShtSA "a AoO NoA@-tS 'S~A'
and revolutions.
The American Embassy, at Con.
stantinople, has received from tn,
Sultan three small silk carpets anc
one large wooden carpet from his pri
vate factory at Hereke.. They were
presented by the Sultan to President
Roosevelt
The SHeommittee of the Kilkenny
FoxhouMds has decided to offer tbs
mastership of the pack to Mr. Isaac
Bell, anfAmerican.
The Japanese press has urged
pressur8Sto be brought upon China
to compel her to observe alleged obli
cations which means suhservience te
Japan's aims.
The Belgian Government issued iii
reply to the Congo State Commission
King Leopold is said to desire no per
sonal profit from the 1donations re
served under the treaty, but threat
ems to take his former place In thu
Congo administration Il the treaty 4
not ratified.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
'SENATE'S CURRENCY BILL
4
Provides For Emergency Issue OF
s25O,0OO,OOO.
State and Municipal Bonds to Be Ac-
cepted as Security When OfficiaIly
Endorsed AIdrich Fathers Plan.

Washington, D. c. Chairman AL
drich Of the Senate Finance Commit
tee introduced in the Senate the
financial bill whichhe had under prep
aration for some time. The measure
was discussed informally by the FL
nance Committee at it's meeting, but
no lineup of its members was had.
After the bill was introduced it was
referred to the Finance Committee.
The bill is composed of eight sec
tons. 1t provides for the issue in
emergencies of not more than $780,
100000 additional circulating notes
by national banks, secured by the de-
post of Government, State, munici-
pal or first mortgage bonds, the
Comptroller of the Currency to de-
termine the time and amount of the
issue, not, however, to exceed the
amount of the unimpaired capital
and surplus of each bank
The character of the bonds to be
accepted, as prescribed in section q.
is practically the same as at pres
ent.
Section 3 prescribes the manner of
depositing the bonds.
Section 4 changes the present law
regarding the tax to be paid by the
banks on their circulating notes, ac-
cording to the character of the bonds
deposited against them: on notes
based on two per cent, consols and
Panama Canal bonds one-quarter of
one per cent. each half year; United
States bonds bearing higher interest
one-half of one per cent. each half
year; based on State, municipal.
county or railroad bonds one-half OF
one per cent. per month.
Section provides for the with
drawal of the notes based on other
than United States bonds by deposit
ing national banknotes, or lawful
money.
Section prescribes the denomin-
atoms of the emergency notes to be
issued, from SIS to SIC, 900; provides
for their printing and storage in the
nearest Treasury subject to de-
livery by order of the Comptroller of
the Currency. The notes are to state
on their face that they will be re-
deemed by the United States in law
full money on presentation at the
Treasury; are to bear the signature
of the Treasurer and register and the
Treasury seal, and the promise signed
by the president and cashier of the
bank to pay on demand.
Section provides for the redemp-
ton of the emergency notes by the
Treasury in lawful money.
Section prescribes that the banks
located outside of reserve or central
reserve cities which are now required
by law to keep a reserve equal to if
teen per cent. of their deposits, shall
hereafter hold at all times at least
two-thirds of such reserve in lawful
money.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
MANY RAILWAY FATALITIES
Interstate Commission Shows
Casualties Have Increased.
$1,000 Dead or Hurt on Roads id
19O7--One Out Of 1914 Killed,
One Out of Eight Injured.

Washington, D. C.-The annual re-
port Of the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission, submitted to Congress, re,
views the work Of the Commission for
the last year under the new rate law,
After pointing out that the amended
act has been in force only sixteen
months, the Commission adds that ii
was not expected that reforms could
be brought about without dificultJ
or delay, "but it is unquestionably
the fact that great progress has been
made, and that further improvement
is clearly assured"
The Commission declares that rail-
way managers generally throughout
the country have accepted the act in
good faith and shown sincere dis
position to conform to it's require
ments.
Figures relative to deaths and in
buries due to railway accidents in the
year 1907 were also made public.
They show that the total number of
casualties was 108,324 and that TO-
618 persons were killed. A large
proportion of the accidents were CON
fined to employees of railroads, all
though the ANmber of passengers
killed during the year was 359 and
those injured 10,764. This is an i'm
provement over the previous year,
during which 537 passengers were
killed and 10,457 injured.
Passengers killed in collisions
numbered LAG and those injured g.
053. The number killed outside Of
employees and passengers numbered
$3.50 and those injured 10,241 A
large number of these latter casual
ties are attributed to trespassing.
These figures, which are from the
annual report of the Interstate Com
mission, show that the total number
of casualties to persons other than
employees from being struck by trains,
locomotives or cars was 5127 killed
and 1905 injured. The casualties of
this class at highway crossings show:
Passengers killed, 81 injured, 8; 9TH
er persons killed, 926; injured, 1884:
passengers killed at stations, As; in
jured, 90; other persons killed, sec;
injured, CAT; passengers killed at
other points along the track, 8; in
jured, 16; other persons killed, g..
581; injured, 1884.
Ratios of casualties indicate that
one employee in every 3S7 was killed
and one employe in every twenty was
injured. One trainman was killed
for every 124 employed and one was
injured for every eight employed
In 1906 one passenger was killed
for every 2,227,041 carried and one
Injured for every 74,276 carried. For
1905 the figures show that 1876, 1856
passengers we're carried for one
killed, and 70,655 passengers were
carried for one injured.
Casualties occurred among three
general classes of railway employees,
as follows: Trainmen, 1910 killed
and 34,989 injured; switch tenders.
crossing tenders and watchmen, lat
killed and 1925 injured; other en-
ployes, 1472 killed and 4O,686 in.
jured. The casualties to employees
coupling and uncoupling cars were:,
Killed. 29S; injured. 1884. The cas-
ualties connected with coupling and
and uncoupling cars were: Train
men, 266 killed and ITO injured i
other employees. IA killed and 124 in
jured.
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Salaries and
Fees (estimated).
OF nnn O00
sTATIsTICs OF NEW YORK RACE TRACKs

feet steamed into the harbor, under
the splendid mountains that frame
the bay, beautiful in the tropical sun,
it was a specacle incompatible to the
sye. The roadstead lay like glitter
ing mirror beneath.
Word that the fleet had passed
Cape Frio, about forty-five miles out,
was received at $50 O'Clock, and i'm
mediately scores of tugs and other
small craft, crowded with spectators,
set out to meet the visitors, and &C
companied them to the anchorage.
Outlined against the horizon the great
battleships, stretched out in one line,
came slowly through the passage into
The bay. The Connecticut, Rear-Ad-
miral Evans flagship, was in the lead,
with the Brazilian cruisers, dressed
In gala attire, on either side. Passing
the 'fortresses, the Connecticut fired a
salute of twenty-one guns, which was
responded to by the Brazilian war
ships, the German cruiser Bremen
and the shore guns. The yards and
fighting-tops were manned and cheers
upon cheers were given for the splen-
did passage of the flagship and her
sister ships.
AS soon as the anchorage was
made, the Brazilian Minister of Ma
rine, Admiral Alencar, the Captain of
the Port, the American Consul-Gen-
sral G. &c. Anderson, the commandments
of naval divisions and the civic au-
thorities went on board the Connecti-
cut and extended hearty welcome
to Rear-Admiral Evans, his officers
and men.
Hundreds of launches, tugs and
small boats circled about the battle
ships until long after the sun had
gone down. Not less than $4,000 to
10000 persons were aboard these
boats and more than $4,000 others
were gathered on shore to celebrate
the coming of the fleet. At night
the city was beautifully illuminated,
and it was made gala occasion in
honor of the visitors.
All the way down from Port of
Spain the voyage was an enjoyable
one and all on board the ships were
we'll and seemingly happy.
To some extent the progress of the
fleet was hampered by the strong
currents and the swell, poor coal and
minor arrangements of the auxiliary
machinery of several of the ships. A
stay at Rio de Janeiro of ten days is
planned.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

School boards of the cities of Por-
to Rico adopted resolutions looking
to a large extension of the system
of instruction.
The Cuban masons resolved to re-
turn to work and submit their dis
putes to arbitration.
A large increase of the national
guard of Hawaii is urged by the War
Department in a communication to
territorial officers.
There is little movement of Jap.
anese laborers from Hawaii to Van
couver, B. G. The sugar grinding
season has begun, and there is an
abundance of employment
Business men of Manila criticised
the appointment of Senior Oroneta to
the Supreme Bench. which appoint
ment gives the Filipinos the majority
in the highest court in the land.
Governor Carter, of Hawaii, asked
in his annual report that if exclusion
be extended to all Asiatics the islands
be exempt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
BATTLESR|P FLEET
REACHES RIO JANEIRG
BraziIians Extend a Warm Wei
come 10 Admiral Evans.
ONE-1HIRD or VOYAGE OVER
Cheers and Statutes For United States
Ships at Brazil's Capital--Fine
Voyage Slightly Retarded by
Wind and Sea and Poor Coal. Il.

Rio Janeiro, Brazil The Ameri-
can fleet of sixteen battleships en-
tered the port of Rio Janeiro at
o'clock p. m. after passage from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than
$500 miles, unmarried by serious ac-
cident, replete with interesting incl
dents and ending with royal well
come from thousands that had gath
cred to meet the visitors. q
The fleet weighed anchor at
o'clock on the afternoon of December
20 at Port of Spain, and exactly at
o'clock p. m. the vessels were swing
ing at their anchors in this beautiful
harbor. All of the battleships are
here. The feet has now covered
about 1900 miles, about third the
distance of the voyage to San Fran
cisco.
Early in the morning the crowds
began to gather in the streets of Rio
Janeiro, and long before the signal
flags were hoisted announcing the
approach of the American ships thou
sands of curious spectators had taken
up points of vantage on public build
ings and elevated quays. When the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
DIAMOND FIRMS IN TROUBLE.
Four Big New York Concerns in
Hands of Trustees.

New York City-The effect of the
financial situation on the sale of lux.
uries was shown when four of the
largest diamond dealing firms oD
Fifth avenue acknowledged their in,
ability to realize enough on their
stock to meet their obligations.
With assets conservatively esti-
mated to be worth $6.250,000, and
liabilities Of $4,000, 900, John Frank
els Sons Company, a million-dollai
corporation, OF No. SIG Fifth avenue;
Joseph Frankels Sons and Cattle
Ettinger & Hammel, of the same adj
dress, and Il. M. Cattle & Co., OF
Thirty-eighth street and Fifth ave.
nue., a 100000 corporation. were
compelled to place the management
of their affairs In the hands of trus.
tees until times become better OF
their business is Hquidated.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
SCORES OF MILL HANDS sTARvE.
Famine Raging For Weeks Before
Substantial Citizens Hear of 1t.

Philadelphia.-Sub citizens
in the Falls of Schuylkill precinct
awoke to the fact that for weeks
scores of hardworking employees of
the Dobson mills have been starving
among them, so they took steps to re-
lieve conditions. First, however, the
famished men, women and children
had to appeal to the police for aid.
1t was through the departmental re-
port that the information reached the
the well-to-do residents in that part
of the city. Several dozen families
sought assistance from the police.
The close of the mills "for lack of
orders" seven weeks ago threw 5000
toilers out of work.
One case was that of q widow with
five children, who for years had
earned a scanty living for herself and
them as a weaver. Equally pathetic
was that of an old woman and her
five grandchildren, all dependent on
her. The section was visited. with
view to giving assistance. by an
agent of the Society for Organized
Charity.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
About Noted People.

General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, says Americans are more pious
than the English
Judge John w. Barr, the distin-
guished Kentucky jurist, died in
Louisville, KY, Of pneumonia, at the
age Of eighty-two.
Count Quadt, once first secretary
of the German Embassy at Washing
ton, d. c., has been appointed GER
man Minister to Persia.
Senator Allison. chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, in
dorses Mr.. Cleveland's plan for PEN
sions for retired Presid ents-
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to the corridors below. A panic in
the children in the lower part of
the house was narrowly averted, all
of these eventually being taken to
the street in safety.
~ When the reserve police arrived
they found the narrow stairway
blocked with bodies, some of whom
were crushed almost beyond recogni-
ton. Scores of children were forced
by the pressure from the crowd be-
hind them to scramble over those
that had fallen, living and dead, and
many of the injured children were
found later to be suffering from frac-
tured bones and severe decorations.
Soon after the accident the APP
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women seaching for
their missing children.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
FREES sCHMITz AND RUFF.
San Francisco Prosecution VIII Has
ten Other Suits Against Them.

San Francisco The District Court
Of Appeals set aside the Judgment in
the case of former Mayor Eugene e.
Schmitz, convicted of extortion in the
French restaurant case. Abe Ruef
also benefits, for, accordinS to the de-
cision, he pleaded guilty to an act
that was no offense against the laws
of the State.
The news of the decision spread
rapidly over the city, causing conster-
nation in some quarters and delight
in others.