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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
NEW YORK MARKETS.

Wholesale Prices of Farm Products
Quoted for the Week.
WHEAT--No. 2 Red. 800 N. No.
1 Northern Duluth. $1.16A.
CORN-No. 2. 63Hc.
OATS-Mixed, white. 56h @59hc.
MILK--3 &C. per quart.
Western. firsts. 23c.
Sta Dairy, 24hc. n
CHEESE-State, full cream, 1 s " C.
EGGS-State ana nearby. fancy,
30 q 32c.; do, good to choice, 27@
2sc.; Western, firsts, 251k @25&c.
BEEVES-City dressed. 17h %
9c.
CALVES-City dressed, S@13Ac.
per h.. country dressed at 7@11hc.
SHEEP-Per 100 lb. s4.25 % $3.50.
HOGS--Live. per 100 lbs, $500.
HAY-Prime. per 100 lbs, $1.00.
STRAW--Long rye. 6O@67hc.
LIVE POULTRY-Fowls per lb..
12h,. Chickens per h.. II NC. Tur-
keys per h., lac. Ducks per lb.. lac.
DRESSED POULTRY-Turkeys
per h. 12017c. Fowls per ID. 100
13c. Chickens. Phila.. per lb.,22Q
Chickens. Phila., per lb.. 22@26c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., l.. |. per
bbl.. $3.50.
ONIoNS-White. per bbl.. $4,000
$500. 49,.
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Night aidcrs Make Raid.

Hopkinsville, Ky, Feb. 10.-One
hundred and fifty masked night rid
ers invaded Fredonia, captured the
telephone central and cut out all
telephone connections. They then
imprisoned several citizens in drug
store. Leaving a large guard in
town they galloped to View, five miles
away, and BILE up Alfred H. Car
din's tobacco factory. containing 3d.
coo pounds of tobacco, and destroyed
with fire Cardin's barn. containing
10000 pounds more. The total dam
age was $4,000.
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Indicted as Embezzler.

Pittsburg, Feb. 12.-It has become
known that two indictments charging
embezzlement had been found against
George l. Whitney, head of Whitney
& Stephenson, brokers, members Of
the New York Stock Exchange. and
F. l.. Stephenson and Irwin NJ. Fickle-
son, his partners. The firm failed
for $7,500,000. Whitney was for
merly interested in many enterprises
with H. G. Frick and his fortune was
estimated short time ago at $685.
100000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Thought Alarm Church Call.

North Haven, Conn, Feb. 1.-THE
-gregatioDal Church was found to
be on FIRE by the janitor when he
opened the door to ring the first bell
-or morning service. The members
of the congregation, thinking that his
ringing was the regular call for
church, did not respond till the
flames bad made such headway that
they could not be checked.
A bucket brigade was formed but
saved little of the building. which
was one of tn oldest in Connecticut.
The loss will be about $4,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
To Kill All Wild Horses.

Reno, New. Feb. 11.-Or-
ders have been received from
th.. Forestry Department in
structing the Rangers on the Toe
lyabe, the Toqr.ma, and the Kouitor
reserves in lander County to kill all
wild horses found on the Government
domain. There are about $4,000
wild horses on the reserves. They
are doing much damage to vegetation
and attracting domestic animals to
their herds.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Ship to Fight In Air.

Washington, Feb. 12.-Peter Coop
er Hewitt of New York, electrical
engineer and inventor of the hydro
plane skimming boat, intends to
build a dirigible balloon for the gov
ernment which will be more power
full as a fighting machine than any
thing now under consideration by the
War Department. He will build the
balloon at his own expense, the ma
chine to be bought by the govern
ment II satisfactory.
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Oppose Currency Measures.

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 12.-Repre-
sentatives of the insurance and finan-
cial interests of this city, In the meet
ing with the Hartford Board of
Trade. by resolution declared their
opposition to 1.-The various schemes of
imitation now before Congress under
the general name of emergency meas
'ures." They favored the creation Of
a commission empowered to investi-
gate the whole subject"
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A despatch from Vienna says in

n UVoTUVN IIVIII IVHIIN buVS III
an Interview with Count Hadik,
whose engagement &c Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt of New York, has been
reported, the Count declared that
the report Is n fabrication.
A specio; despatch says CONDITIONS
in Hayti are quiet, though martial
law still prevails IL some districts.
"War between the United States
and Japan is unthinkable," Ambassa-
dor Takahira declared in London.
Deposed Dictator Franco, fleeing
from Portugal, passed through Ma
drid, apparently on his way to Paris.
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Lexington, KY. Feb. 12.-The
Fayette County Grand Jury today in
dicted the American Tobacco Com
pany on q charge of coispiracy to re-
duce the price of raw tobacco. This
indictment Is the Arst result of Cir
cult Judge Parker's order to the
Grand Jury TO investigate the tobao-
co situation in this region.
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Arrest Gov. Folks Nephew.

Winnipeg, Feb. George Folk.
Secret Service agent for the Treasury
Department, Washington. and neph-
ew Of GOV. Folk OF Missouri. is con-
flnec in jail at Emerson. He Is
charged with kidnapping two Cana
dians on Dec. 27.
Folk is liable to seven years in the
penitentiary II proved guilty. Ap-
peals have been sent to Ottawa and
Washington.
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Tells Senators he has Com
pre!lensivc Plan for
Checking a Crisis
TO PREVENT PANIC'S
Ready Emergency Circulating Notes
Needed to Prevent Collapse of
Country's Buslncss--Prcdicts there
will Shortly bc Great Excess of
Currency and Surplus Capital.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The Senate
according to previous arrangement,
took up the Financial bill, common
ly known as the Aldrich bill, and the
Rhode Island Senator whose name
1t bears, made an address in advo-
cacy of the measure.
MIR. Aldrich began hfs speech with
q review of the financial trouble
which eliminated in the panic of
last October and of the means taken
by the Treasury for relief. He refer
red to the issuance of Clearing House
certificates as the most effectual REM
edy for the stratened condition Of
the currency supply praised the ac-
tion of certain patriotic individuals
in the crisis, and, after asserting that
the amount of currency was ample
for ordinary occasions, declared that
the country in such another emergen-
cy could not be saved by the same
means. In explanation of this state
ment he said that on a possible re-
currence of the trouble the growing
deficit of the Treasury would prevent
the placing of large Government de-
posts in the banks; the supply Of
bank notes could hardly be increased; /;
the country's commerce might not
be again in a position to stimulate
large gold imports; men may not be
found in another emergency with the
patriotism, courage and capacity of
those who, in this crisis, rendered
such conspicuous and invaluable ser
vice to the financial interests of the
country" and, lastly, "the suspen-
sion of bank payments will not be
tolerated again"
Senator Aldrich predicted that
there would be no such depression
following this panic as followed the
panic of 1898; that in all financial
centres there would shortly be a
great excess of currency and prob
ably a surplus of loanable capital
Under these circumstances, he con-
tinued, Il believe it to be the i'm
perative duty of Congress, in their
wisdom, to provide some means of
escape from another calamitous cris'
i is"
Two plans for general legislation
were considered by the committee:
First, that advocated by many
| thoughtful students of economic his.
tory and teachings, who are led by
| the experience and practice of Other
! commercial nations TO favor some
! plan for central bank Of issue
which would be in effect a central
clearing house with very limited
banking functions, under Government
control.
Second, that supported by large
number of bankers and students, who
maintain that our monetary system
will never be placed on the proper
basis until the sole power of issuing
notes Is lodged In the banks. the Sc
curity of such notes to be based up
or general pledge of the assets o.
the banks, their convertibility to bC
undertaken by the banks and to de
pend upon an insurance fund. Thii
plan involves an entire change In tn,
character of our currency and the ul
innate retirement Of outstanding
United States notes and gold ant
silver certificates.
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Steel Men at Work.

Philadelphia, Feb, 7.-One thous-
ani men formerly employed by the
Pennsylvania Steel Company at
Steelton, Pa, have been called back
10 work after an enforced idleness Of
more than a month. Rush orders
from New York, warranted the CON-
pany in increasing its present force
10 2,b00 men, or about 40 per cent of
the normal force.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13

Root has asked for S225,000 for
pocket money by American represen-
tatives abroad. a part of this
amount he would use in providing
better quarters tor the Consuls. The
request was made on the House
Committee on Foreign affairs that
the sum be added to the contingent
expense fund
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
EVANI'S N THE Pacific.
Fleet of Battleships Sight
ed Twelve Miles East
of Cape Pillar
HEAVY WIND AND SEA
Nava' Men Regard the Achievement
of Admiral Evans in Making the
Passage of the Strait Without a
Stop as Something of Which All
America may be Proud.

Punta Arenas, Strait of Magellan,
reb. 11.-Breasting high winds Ad-
miral Evanss fleet plunged through
head seas to the Strait and is glid-
mg northward In the Pacific with
Oallao as the first stop. The sixteen
splendid battleships and brace of
other naval vessels were sighted
swel.e miles east of Cape Pillar,
which IL the westernmost point in
the tormy passage, and that they
negotiated that last dozen Of miles
satisfactorily is taken for granted
partly on account of the ships them
selves, partly because of the gallant
way they tackled the perils Of the
long, rough stretch. News of the
deet was brought here by the steam
ship Orta of the Pacific Navigation
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$4,000 for Erie Engineer.

Middletown, N. Y, Feb. 8.--A jury
in the Supreme Court of Orange
County has given a verdict of $751;
600 o Elijah Schoonmaker against
the Erie Railroad. Schoonmaker was
an engineer In the employ Of the
railroad company. and was on an en-
gine which was struck by a runaway
train at Port Jervis. Oct. 8. 1904.
Schoonmaker was buried under his
engine and one arm was burned of.
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CUBANS TALK ANNEXATION.
Thoughtful People I'm Island Think It
Must Tie to America.

Havana, Feb. lila Lucha, the
Liberal organ, says it is convinced
tha. Washington will devise new
measure to guarantee Cuban stabil-
ity. The political lethargy here is
remarkable, considering that only a
year Of provisional government re-
mains, according to the announced
programme. Most thoughtful per-
sons are convinced that protector
ate or early annexation is inevitable.
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st. Louis, Feb. 10-The national
convention of the unemployed termi-
mated with the adoption of a resolu-
tion calling upon the President and
Congress to insre citizens of both
sexec against enforced ijleness lin
the same way as the soldiers are sup
pc ted in periods of inactivity; and
that the soldiers of industry be treat
i as well as the soldiers of war;"
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Oldest Editor Dies.

Ycukers. N. Y. Feb. 10,---John w.
Cii-sr. editor and principal owner of
lhe Yonkerp Statesman. died at his
homs, Rose Cottage, Warburton ave-
aue, Yonkers, at the age OF ninety
three. He was the oldest active edi-
tor Of daily paper in the country
and probably In the world.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Rockefeller Men Fight Fire.

Tarrytown, N. Y. Feb. 12.-The
fire brigade from John D. Rockefel-
ler's estate, composed Of his servants
and workmen. aided in fighting a fire
which was caused by burglars upset
ting a red-hot stove In Joe Foley's
famous old inn at Pocanuco Hills. In
the northern section of Westchester
County. The building was totally
destroyed.
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Pittsburg, Feb. 12.-It developed
that Charles NJ. Schwab. former head
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, has come to the financial rescue
of f. T. Lovejoy, who will be enabled
to save at least 100000 of his for
mer fortune, which was being taken
away from him rapidly by foreclos-
ures, &c.
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Chicago, Fcb. 12.-The plato. slab
and structural mills of the Illinois
Steel Company, have opened. giving
employment to 1000 men. Accord
ing to w. A. Field, the general super
intendent Of the works, 5000 more
men will be put to work soon.
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May Publish Portraits.

Kingston. N. Y. Feb. 11.-Su-
preme Court Justice Belts. in sus-
= lining a demurrer In the case Of JOS
eph Mcser against the Press Publish
ing company, has decided that a
newspaper has the right to publish in
its news columns a portait or picture
of person without first obtaining
the consent of that person.
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Must Furnish Nine-FOot Sheets.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 12.-To pro-
tect guests against the possibility Of
tuberculosis infection and to crafty
their aesthetic tastes the House Of
Representatives passed sweeping
bill regulating hotels. The message
provides that every hotel shall fur
nish sheets nine feet long, which will
keep all bed clothing from contact
with the sleeper. This is sanitary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Wants Orientals'Kcpt Out.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 9.-The Ash
attic Exclusion League of North Amer
lea has franco a Memorial to Con-
gress" demanding immediate legisla-
tion for the absolute exclusion OF
japanese, Koreans and Chinese from
American shores.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
CudahY Saves a Chief.

Bliss, Okla, Feb. 11.-John Cuda-
by, Jr., some of the Chicago meat
packer, saved Chief Horse Eagle Of
the Poncha Indians from drowning.
Caief offered his daughter to Cudahy.
The -escuer sent word that he deeply
appreciated the honor, but pale-face
conventionalities forbade accepting
the offer. The girl was disappointed.
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Shakespeare Undone Again.

Milwaukee, Feb. 9.-Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice" has been de-
nouncec by the Lutheran ministers
Of Milwaukee as play that violated
Christian principles and was without
literary value.
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PUBLIC PRINTER SUSPENDED.
President Takes Action Mt the Re
quest of Investigators.

Washington, Feb. S.-President
Roosevelt has suspended Public
Printer Stillings in order that the
joint Congressional Committee may
continue its investigation of the Gov
ernment establishment without him
drance.
w. S. Rossiter. Chief Clerk of the
Bureau of the Census, Department Of
Commerce and Labor, was placed In
charge by the President.
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FOR Philippine independence.

Washington, Feb. 8.-Senator
Stone Of Missouri, has introduced a
Joint resolution authorizing the Pres
ident to relinquish the control of the
Philippine Islands in 1913. upon first
securing the pledge from other ma
tions t. preserve the neutrality Of
the islands.
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Cuba Wants I.asSOrers.

Havana, Feb. 1.-THE Agrarian
League has appointed committee to
memorabilia Gov. Magoon and urge
him to use the 100000 the last
Cuban Congress voted to promote i'm
migration.
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Filipinos in the House.

Washington, Feb. 1.-Two men
have been admitted to membership
in the House who were not chosen
at the polls. They are Pablo Ocam-
po de Leon and Benito Legardo. from
the Philippine Islands. elected by the
Colonial Assembly.
They can take part in debates but
may not introduce bills nor vote.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Foot Gone. He Shot Himself.

Paterson. N. j.. Feb. 11.-Frederic
Ross, 16 years old, respondent at the
loss of his left foot, which was am
putated at the Paterson General Hos
pital few weeks ago, committed sui
eide by shooting at his home on
Grove Street, Clifton.
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To Buy Cripple Creek.

Denver, Feb. 12.--It has been gen.
orally reported among mining men
that New York men whose identity
cannot be learned have got options
on enough Cripple Creek properties 10
put them practically in control OF the
camp II the deal is put through.
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San Francisco, Feb. 11.-Railroad
engineers nave completed plans for
s20.000,000 union transportation
terminal to be built at Van Ness
Avenue and Market Street. The Sta
ton will be used by all railroads, in
terur oan lines and subways.
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Million rom Field Estate.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-The Marshall
Field estate will pay Cook County
9l,000,000 In taxes lodged during
the last years Of the great merchant.
who piled up an estate OF nearly
e200,000.000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13
Blue Laws Stop Wedding.

Winnipeg, Man, Feb. IA
squad of police raided Shsrry Shom-
ayin Synagogue and stopped FASH
ionable wedding on the ground that
the Lords Day act says no work must
be done on Sunday.
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Violin, S. Dak.. Feb. THE par
ents of new born daughter having
named her Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. their
neighbors are indignant and threaten
Vic lence unless the child's name is
changed.
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Burned to Death Fighting Fire.

Heath. Mass, Feb. 11.--Arthur J.
Peterson, while fighting a fire which
he inadvertently set in his barn,
was burned to death in view of his
wife, who was powerless to help him.
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Continental Limited Dcrailcd.

Detroit, Feb .12.-The West bound
Continental Limited on the Wabash
Railroad was derailed by broken
rail at Delhi, one hundred and fifty
miles east Of here. No one was
hurt, the train was delayed six hours.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13

ZalesviIlc, Ohio, Feb. 12.-The
Tube Plant On tho Mark Manufacture
Ing Company, employing 700 men,
has resumed work and the Roscville
Pottery. employing 800 men, resumed
on half tine.
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Whitlock Afraid Of Money Germs.
Toledo. Feb. brand Whitlock,
Mayor and novelist, is afraid OF
germs on old paper money and in
sists that his salary be paid him In
crisp new bills.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-13

Naugatuck, Conn, Feb. 12.-Nine
hundred employees in the grinding de-
partment Of the Goodyear Metallic
Rubber Goods Company and the
Goodyear India Rubber Glove Com
pany, have returned to work
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80 Degrees Below Zero.

OIL City. Pa, Feb. 12.-The coldest
weather in the history of the oil re-
gion was experienced here, the tenn
perature being 80 degrees below
zero.
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Biddeford, Me-, Feb. 12.-The Pep
perell Manufacturing Company, will
resume full time in the local cotton
mills next Monday. About 1000 op-
eratives are effected.
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Covering Miner FIappen-
ings from ali Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled Gnd Condensed FOR the
Busy Rcader--A Complete Record
OF European Dispatches and I'm.
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for TASTY Perusal.

Charles w. Morse was indicted on
two charges of grand larceny for
cashing two checks of 100000 each
which he indorsed Morgan ].
O'Dr'en, per C. w. Morse" He will
be arrested on his arrival and held
In 100000 bail.
Secretary Taft. speaking at Kansas
City, before the Association of Young
Republicans of Missouri defended
President Roosevelt's attitude to-
wards the trusts.
Mrs. Miller, OF Newburg, n. Y,
whose husband sold his furniture to
raise money to send her to her early
sweetheart In Utah, returned TO her
Eastern home, telephonlng Mr.. Mil
Ter to meet her at the depot.
Gov. Hughes of New York, has
agreed to give hearing to women
suffragsts.
Testimony in the action OF the Gov
ernment to dissolve the Standard OIL
Company OF New Jersey will be taken
at Albany, n. Y, by Special Examiner
Franklin Ferris. The hearing in AL
ban Is to save time and for conven-
iece of witesses.
Blood poisoning following the cut
ting of corn by chiropodist caused
the death of Supreme Court Justice
George B. Abbott at his home, No.
&c Joralemon street, Brooklyn.
President Roosevelt made public
letter to William Dudley Foulke
denouncing as false and malicious"
statements that he had used patron
age In aid of any candidate for the
Presidential nomination.
Martin II. Glynn. State Controller,
said in his annual report that the
non-observance of the Stock Transfer
Tax law costs the State nearly
s2,000,00O annually.
Senator Aldrich, it was announced,
will speak In support of the Elastic
Currency bill, closing the campaign
of education which practically re-
moved all opposition.
The prospect of losing S250,000
annually appropriated to County fair
associations threatened to kill the
rural support of Governor Hughes
Anti-Race Track bill.
F. H. Hitchcock will leave the
Postal Department to manage the
Taf, campaign.
AS a result of the Public Printery
scandal. President Roosevelt has
ousted the Audit System.
Two thousand citizens Of italian
birth met in New York to discuss
measures for putting stop to BLACK
Hand" outrages.
Senator Culberson has accused Sec
retary Cortelyou of six violations of
law In the measures taken to meet
the panic.
Mrs. Charles Peavey, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, captured burglar at the point
Of her revolver.
Former Attorney-General Judson
Harmon has declared that tariff re-
| form must be made the main Dem
ocratfc issue In the coming President
ial campaign.
The Merchants Association Of New
York. voted to oppose the passage by
Congress Of the Aldrich Currency bill
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FOREIGN.

Special dispatches from Lisbon tell
of an affecting scene which took place
at the Necessidas Palace when King
Manuel received the grand officers Of
the civil and military household of
his late father.
It is announced In a special despatch
from Tsheran that the representa-
tives of Great Britain and Russia
have been assured that no change in
the system Of collecting the customs
u contemplated as the result of the
dismissal of M. Monard.
A special despatch from Shang-
hal says the Chinese are alarmed at
the tone Of the Japanese publicists
and press, the annexation of Man
churla being openly advocated.
Madrid fears a tragedy like that
at Lisbon.
1t is officially announced that as a
result OF the steamship conference in
London a three years agreement has
been arranged, by which all steam
ship lines will have uniform saloon
rates and no rebates as hitherto, on
first or second class return tickets.
Mr.. Searns, Director of Public
Works of Philadelphia, and Mr.. Web
ster, Chief Surveyor Of that city, ar
rived at Berlin to study the sanitary
arrangement of the city. They are be-
ing given every facility by the NUM-
cipal authorizes.
The big shipbuilding syndicate Of
Sir James Lainy & Sons has suspend
ed. Its yards at Sunderland and
Deptford employed 5000 men.
Grave fears are entertained for
the health Of Chancellor Won Bulow.
Of Germany. who is seriously Ill with
Influenza.
According to advices from Lisbon,
King Manuel sent letter to the
Portuguese Premier declaring he
would accept no money for royal use
unles 1t had been duly sanctioned by
. Parliament.
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