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HTTr TT"T? .1. JnLJK "" O , , VOL. XXV. KALEIGH, NOHTHCABOLm A. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 107. NO. 44. TAR HEEL ft items Gathered From All r; 7 Crazy Man Suicides. .-ir.ro, Special. Tuesday af u.rrat 2:29 o'clock one of the in the county jail ui horrified upon passing the .i iVliow prisoner to see him by the neck from the top of The horror-stricken man ! ity jell which soon brought .; to the scene. He round .vc-tigation that the roan who ..:'v.". from the cell va3 John . a demented white man, who ' :-i placed in the jail a few for safe-keeping until he n to the asylum. He was ! it taken down and efforts made i be ;te him, but it was useless, ian who wa3 summoned i ii at he had been dead at least :i hour when discovered. The , i by Monett in taking him- j of coffee, a dollar watch, a razor and m this world were provided j a few other insignificant things. IIU is e of his suspenders, which bond was fixed at $250 and his tri.J uwd to the bunk near the top will probably be hela at the Dccemb f il. He did not have room'lo , term of Federal Court. The penalty i ! :ir and so determined was he fr such an offense is said to be a fine -rt from this world that he ac- an(1 imprisonment for not less than er' his feet up under him in 1 ih.it he might strangle. Monett numht here frrru his homo near on last Friday night. It is ' ;.f I.e. was at times wild aYid i to be violent, but he did not o'licers who went after him iouhle. Since beinsr nut in iail been heard to mutter that i . a v.-ere not going to hang Old ' thorn have been employes of the local i -t. He was" about GiVyears ! ' nostoffiee for any great length of . ;"! is survived by a wife and tirne- Benton was chief night clerk. hniuhters. The body was taken i Wednesday afternoon it w? har unuertaking establishment of C1 tnat District Attorney Holton, o( K. I and prepared for burial. It I-' taken to Julian for inter- -.1. Awful Crime In Thomasville. Ilijli Point, Special. One of the mo4 diabolical crimes in the history1 of the State was ierpetrated at Tiionui vil!e, the particulars of which have just been learned here by the hro'citi? of the little girl hero on the aft-'-nioon train. The facts in tNr case are about as follows: The 4- hi child of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Fields, of this place, was visiting tho family of Mr. and Mrs. H. . Shoaf, ' irhitives of the Fields, at Thomas-! vi'ie. and while under the influ eneft of mornhine and whiskev. thev iv.croi fully beat the little girl and ' when found she was almost dead. She ; n:s foimd wrapped up in a tow-sack fti:h the left arm broken, the skull 'iu-hed in and bleeding at the nose and month. Her right leg and left foot were badly bruised also, besides oilier bruises on the body. "When the dr.starlly crime was learned in Thn!!i:isvill, a correspondent learns that there were serious threats of a lynching, but it was averted. Doth parties were arrested and plac ed under bonds in the sum of $500 each. The little girl was brought p her home here, and great crowds gathered around to look and listea j tn the awful story, and there are! many muttering of what should have been done to such people as the fiends v- !:o would so unmercifully treat a j - w 7 child. the brakeman who was arrested for having caused the wreck at Rudd by negligence and placed upder a $1,000 bond for his appearance, arrived i:a the city and signed the bond for her ion's appearance at the next term of Superior Court. Then they returned to their home at Lexington. Convention of Anglers. New York, Special. With the ob :xt of uniting more effectively for the preservation of the game fishes i" America, a call has been issued for a convention of the anglers of the Fnited States and Canada, to be held ; at the American Museum of iSaturat . History in New York, beginning No- vcruber 11. Drunken Man Shot. VTadesboro, Special. Friday night aVmt 10 o'clock John Tucker, a white man living near here, was shot Brakeman Leonard Released on E2kT?,cloek Tuesday morning with three n , o i xr j j - issues as follows: First, was the Ureensboro, Special. Wednesday j ., , ,. ' , ' . , railroad euiltv of nesmsence: second. t'f heart and the wound may . dent of the South and Western Rail rrove fatal. Tucker was drunk when road, Mr. George L. Crater, has is he came up town and made the &n- : sued an order that all heavy work on 'loam-eaient. His first story was that ; this road be suspended until further ie received the ball at the street fair! notice. The road which is being built dni; ? business here now, but later from the eoal fields of West Virginia, he declared that he was near the de- j to the Carolina Seaboard, has attract pot when shot. Tie does not know ed wide a'ttentiou in the South. The fr has not told who shot him. He,' tightness in the money market is as-v-oiit immediately to Dr. Bennett's signed as the reason for this order .':ve. and after examination the doc- emanating from the president-of the t r advised him to go to a hospital I road. Eailroad Bonds Carry in Transylva nia County.. Brevard. SpecialRerurns from Transvlrania County show that out of a total re'gis.'tr'aiio'n l-aprolymate-: lv 1.060 at least 675 have1 voted, for j honds for the trans-continental rail read, giving aj majority of 300 for h'Tids and as returns from some of the precincts are incomplete, it is probable that this majority will be increased. - TOPICS Sections of the State Two Poetoffice Clerks Eemored. Charlotte, Special. -Messrs. W. E. Joiiker and N. M. Jones, night clerks at the postoftlce, were summarily sus pended Tuesday afternoon by Post office Inspector Barclay. This follow ed the preliminary hearing of Mr. John B. Benton, who was bound over by United States Commissioner Cobb on the charge of trifling with the United States mail. The case of Jun ker and Jones is in the hands of United States District Attorney Holt on, of Winston-Salem. No warrants have as yet been issued for them and is not known what other liters will taken. It was stated that the articles he is was stated that the articles he it charged with having taken will not exceed $2.50. Thev consist of a cai. llirce monuis. Jones and junker were suspended upon statements made previously by Benton. Ti 'i homes wero searched and a numb", of small articles found, all of whi;-h were alleged to have been taken f jot the mails. The list consisted prin cipally of magazines. The defend aills are u young men and none of Vv'inston-Salem, hnd telccrrap' ed r Charlotte, instructing the deputy mar shall here to proceed with the serv ing of the warrants in tho ca.se of Jones and Junker. The South is Strong. "Wilmington, Specfjfl. Fifty lead ing merchants, manufacturers, and business men of this city telegraphed Gov. Glenn of North Carolina; nov. in Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose of considering with the governors of two other States railroad litigation in the South, the following message which he has been requested to read at the meeting: "Southern crops are plentiful and Southern commer cial and industrial conditions never intrinsically sounder. Agitation has ruthlessly depressed values, causing congestion and inability to move crops with expedition. Restoration of confidence essential for the South to relize full values for its great products. We believe it is in the power of the conference to reslov confidence in a great measure, by ? equitable adjustment of the rate -troversy. The South can save tho situation by wise action at this junc ture. You are appealed to as pa triots and statesmen whj have deeply at heart the well being of the whoit people." Mistrial In Damage Snlt. Statesville, Special. The damage suit case of Mrs. Lula Canup vs. the Southern Railway Company, in the Federal Court, resulted in a mistrial. The case was given to the jury at 11 ! was the man guilty of negligence : third, what damage, if any? The jury disagreed on the first issue, and after being out nearly seven hours they reported their disagreement aud a mistrial was ordered. Mr. Canup was killed by a train about a year ago at a crossing west of Salisbury. Municipal Lessee Convention. Philadelphia, Pa., Special A high ly attrctive programme has been ont lincjd by Secretary Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of this wity, for the com ing joint convention of the National Municipal League and American Civ- ie Association, which will be held in Providence, beginning November 19 Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte .is president of the convention Work on S. & W. Suspended. Charlotte, Special. It will be a piatter of some interest to people in this section to know that the presi Child Killed by'FaU Into Well Winston-Salem, Speeial.---The two- year-old son of Jesse Templeton, who resides near. Wilkesboro, fell into a well a. few days ago and was killed instantly. An oilcloth had been spread over the well to keep out leaves and trash. The little boy left the house unnoticed and attempted to run across the .-oil- cloth. lie screamed as he started down and workmen saw him disappear, , A SOUmOHJf ERED A Plan For a System of Credit Currency Outlined A SCHEME TO OBYIATE PANICS Permanent Belief From tie Monetary 8triafeacy, Declares the Chairmaa of the Banking aad Cnrreney Com raittso of the House, Can 2e Ob Uined Only by That Enactment He Points Out the Came of the Present Stringency and Outlines the Eeal Situation. New York, Special. That perma nent relief from the present mone tary stringency can only be had through a system of credit curreacy adequate to meet the requirements of trade and redeemable in gold coin was the opinion expressed by Repre sentative Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, chairman of the banking and currency committee of the House, which will, at the coming session of Congress, endeavor to have a law passed providing for credit currency issued by the national banks. Until uch permanent relief is made pos sible by legislative enactment, Mr. Fowler asserted, the situation must be met by the issuance of clearing house certificates, cashiers' checks and due bills of business houses and nanufacturers. "The underlying business condi- flons," lie said to the Associated Press, "are essentially sound as evi denced by the increased earnings of the railroads and the fact that the value of our agricultural products this year are $300,000,000 more than 'ast year (which was the highest year :n our history), and are bringing to our people about $7,000,000,000. But public confidence has been greatly shaken and credit seriously affected; therefore, every patriotic eitizen from the President down, should do all in his power to restore that confidence which is essential to national pros perity. Cause of Stringency. "The cause of the currency strin gency is that there is scattered broad eat throughout the country, at the mines, in the wheat, corn and cotton fields, in the pockets of the people or locked up about $1,300,000,000 of the reserve money of the United States most of which under a proper condi tion would be in the banks, serving as reserve. Temporary relief will be through the forced use of current credit in the form of clearing house certificates, cashiers' checks and due bills of business and manufacturers during the next 90 days. The perma nent cure must come through a sys tem of credit currency expanding and contracting with the ordinary de mands of the smaller trade, precisely as checks and drafts do in the broad er field of commerce. "We have now proceeded far en ough into the present financial crisis to get a pretty clear perspective of the real situation. f" The Pweal Situation. "First the condition is now gen eral, reaching every nook and corner of the country. , "Second If the gold certificates, the United States notes and silver certificates, or the reserve money which the banks of the country have sent into the wheat fields of the West and Northwest, into the cornfields of the West and Southwest, into the cot ton fields of the South and into the country districts of all sections to settle up the year's business, I say if these reserves now scattered broad cast overland were in the banks where they properly belong there would have been no money panic thi fall. "The proof of this assertion is con clusive. During the past four months there has been sent from the banks into the country districts approxi mately $300,000,000 of currency. Of this amount $250,000,000 approxi mately now in the banks, .would serve as a basis of more than $1,250, 000,000 credits or loans, and the pres ent crisis would have been averted. This result could have been accom plished withou increasing the liabili ties of the banks of the country to the extent of one single cent. Lays Down Ghallenge. "I challenge any man to contro vert this statement and submit the following as absolutely conclusive proof of the assertion. If the banks of the ceuntry in which $250,000,000 had been authoratized as they should have been, to create bank note credits as well as bank book credits, and they, had proceeded to convert this $250,000,000 of bank book credits in to bank note credits the banks would not have been affected in any degree or in any way whatever, and the whole countxy would have been amp ly supplied with currency with whieh 4&:iransact all the fall business." " jfow uidthzs". havy beea doAe ? SimrdV by authdizing each bank to issue cashiers checks to bearer, which is a -' curren credit. that' is, a credit that passes by mere delivery, . requiring no endorsement. By tlais process credits Vould have been converted into ban note credits aa4 as the metres r atiirrd for both forms: of eerdits thoxdi b the same, tier couM bavt hm no ebAojr whatever ia the situa tion. The back 4ebt U the same, tfe axnoont of the reserre is the tame, it baa been only a matter of boo-kep-Inp. An hms of carrest credit ade nnti to meet the requirement of trade and earreatly red"mei gold coin w a principle followed or every eivuized country m me wonu except our own. World's 3txuazz rower. "Mark this: The banking power -yui ,wy,wu,wy ana now ejr -n 1 1 li,000.C(t,XO or equal t entire banking power of th irld in 1PU, which Mnlbali plae. 91.r.S45,0G0.0C9. Today the banV r power of the entire world, ot of th-Uuited States U only $21 rnr r.nn y - fJ,vw, aim i lUliUUUl r cent, or more than $1,000,000,0 ' cashiers' ehick5 or currcn' its. TKat i. credit currency--et while the United States ha - ?.'r.t ff ttip banting power of the entire world, it has not on single dollar of current bank credit although the other four-sevenths of the world's banking power has the advantage of $4,000,000,000 current credits or credit currency. "On the same basis we are en titled to have $3,000,000,000 of cur rent credit or credit currency. "If this principle were broad! adopted in this country as it should be, our bank reserves miijbt be in ceased by an average of 992 p" ent. to about 20 per cent, and our banking liabilities remain practical ly the same. The Cashier's Check. "Can any one give a single reason vhy we should use a check book fof redits to order and not use a cur -erjt credit of the same bank upo vhicb to draw our checks Is no; the cashier's check just as good a? ur check upon the same banl$ ' in 'eed far better1 when protected a? t should be by a guarantee fund de posited with the United States gov ernment, many more times ample to :nsure its redemption in gold coin. "If the banking institutions of the country could exchange $1,000,000, ) of cashiers' checks for $!.;M)J. "0,000 of reserve money now float n; around in the roitiej, wheat, con cotton field and this $1,000,000. '00 were added to the $1,000,000,00? n tho banks on Julv 1st, 1907, our auks liabilities would be mereaseo nly about 8 per ccnC while our re erve would be increased 100 pel nt.; it would be 20 per cent, and ';is end alone is sufficient to justify ;ie adoption of the principle of car rent credits in this country." THE MARKETS Prevailing Prices of Cotton, Grain and Produce Charlotte, N. C, Cotton Market. These figures represent the prices paid to wagons: Good middling 101-2 Snict middling 10 3-?-' Middling 101-J General Cotton Market. Atlanta, steady Galveston, quiet , Xew Orleans, steady . . in ill-: 10 7-: Mobile, steady 11 11-1C Savannah, easy Charleston, steady . Wilmington, steady 10 R-t 10 5-? 10 3- 10 3-4 11 1-' Norfolk, steady Haltimore, nominal New York, steady.. . . Boston, quiet - Philadelphia, steady .... Jlouston, quiet Vugusta, quet and steady Memphis, quiet St. Louis, quiet Little Rock, quiet . . . . .11.1 : .ll.lt .11.3 11 113- Hi ll 3 10 5-: Charlotte, IT. C, Produce Market. rns per head...... ..... Sickens spring . , bricks. . .... . . . .3 or . ... 5Vrs 2:" fitter .T: "ve .. . orn tlon seed ... Q v,t. TV.l GO MIS tVU " " Baltimore Produce Market. . Baaltiore, - Nov. 4 Flour dull charred. Wheat, very quiet ; - span -otract 1031-4 to 1031-2; Southern by sample 9S. Corn quiet and easier; spot mixed 07 3-4; No. 2 white 673-4. Oats easier; No. 2 mixed 55 to 55 1-2. Rye easy j No. 2Western do mectie 97 asked. Butter firm, unchanged; fancy imi tation 24 to 25; do creamery 30 to 31; do ladle 22 to 23; store packed 13 to 20. Eggs steady, unchanged, 25 to 26. Cheese firm, unchanged ; large 16 3-S : fiats 16 3-S; small 165-8. Susar nnchanged; coarse granulafc Vd' 5.10; fine grarfula&d $5.10. It Is charftl'SaFew YoT Clty couldn't get up an old "homecomliis week if It tried, as nearly all grown up folks wpre born somewhere els stippt thft St. Louie Globe-Democrat jKew York should try a carpet-bag- jersr Jabile. DEEPLY INTERESTED Conference at White House on Financial Situation SAFE POLICIES TALKED OYER Steel Trart Maf&ates and Secretary Beet Closeted With the President and All Decline to Make State Bemta at Its Close, Washington, Special Preside Roosevelt conferred for nearly to boors with Secretary Root, E. II. Gary, chairman of the board of di rectors of the United State Steel Corporation, and Henry C. Frick, alo of that corporation. The only state ment obtainable at the White House was to the effect that the conference dealt solely with the financial situa tion. It was said that the President contemplates making no direct state ment at this time. From an authorative source, bow er, it was learned that the Presi dent is consulting with the individual members of his Cabinet, who have had special experience in larg tlnan cial questions respecting the legisla tion to be recommtnuea to (.ullU's at its approaching session relating to currency reform. Of course, the Sec retary of the Treasury has taken the leading part in these conferences, but it is also true that the President is not declining advice from auy othci promising quarter, and he has spent many hours recently in discussing this important subject, these confer ences taking place at night as well as in the day time, and in fact at anv opportune moment. X Some Snags Ahead. The discussion so far has served to bring about the conviction that it will he difficult to get any beneficial leg islation of this character througt Congress quickly. This was one of the reasons why the President did no! agree with the great interests which recently appealed to him to call an extra session of Congress immediately to deal with the finances of the coun try. Notwithstanding the present ereat stress to which the existing na tional bank system as well as the correlative trust-companies are being subjected by the currency stringency, it is feared that some time must elapse before the divers views enter tained by many persons bankers, merchants, law givers, and college professors can be iuscu into one practicable and effective measure of relief. It may be stated that such study a the President and his constitutional advisers have been able to give to the multitude of projected currency bills has left them under the conviction that after all none of them is more promising, or stands a better oppor tunity of securing the approval of Congress, than the particular meas ure referred to by the Prcsidentt in his last message to Congress in deal ing with this subject. This was the plan commonlv ascribed to Secretrv 1 Shaw, which the President stated had in us essential ieatnres, Deen approv ed by many prominent bankers and business men. The President's de scription of the measure was brief, but comprehensive, for he said: "According to this plan, national banks should be permitted to issue a specified proportion of their capital in notes of a given kind, the issue to be taxed at so high a rate as to drive the notes back when not wanted in legitimate trade. This plan would not permit the issue of cnrreney to ?ive banks additional profits, but to meet the emergency presented by times of stringency." It is possible that in the four weeks intervening before assembling of the Sixtieth Congress, the President may conclude, to adopt some other plan, or to amplify and work out the de tails of this means of obtaining an elastic currency, but if he remains of his present turn of mind it is believed that he will feel obliged to recur o the original and simple R,haw plan. Scottish Rite Union. Joseph, Mo., Special. W: St. many order distinguished members of th here, the fall reunion of th" Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rit "f Free Masonry convened in the nw St Joseph cathedral. All degree from the fourth to the thirty-second nclusive. will be conferred, and lanr classes will be instructed in the work. The assembly will close Wednesday, vhen candidates will be instructed in the mysteries of the thirty-first and thirty-second degrees. , . A Receiver Tor the Exposition. Norfolk, Va., SpeciaL-A receiver sbjp for the Jamestown Exposition i aikeil fer ia a ciadsry fuii Ibxought by the NaHonal Meter Cowpany of New York against tho exposition com pany. A decree for reference to a master has been entered. The opin ion is expressed that his report will caH for a receiver's appointment. COVERNORS CONFER ! North CaroSna, Georgia end Alabama Executives Meet RAILROADS ASSURED JUSTICE Alter Seesaioa Laatlai AH Day Oer- eraers lUach Ajrteaeat Am U EaUroad RaU Lav letk4s ef Procdcrt La Eofwxlaj Lav Axreed Una Atlanta, Ga SreiaL -Tarourti 60-0 per lion ia methods to be parsa4 ta iLe enforcement of Ui rfuiU ing railroad pasnjr fax in tho States of Georsria. Alabama and North Carolina as agreed upon Fri day st a conference held in this city, between the Governors of tfcoe States. After a discussion which be an at 9:30 Friday morning, and whieh lasted until late in the after noon, with but a brief interval for luncheon .the three Chief Executive reached an agreemtat and the meet ing u adjourned. In ftatement riveu to the Ao. elated Press tinned by the three gov ernors, it is aid t'uat not only bad tbey arranged to "eo-oopcrate q the investigation or Tacts and law con nected with the duty of our States to the public as to transportation companies," but that they would al so co-operate with other State whirb have the same problems. "We regard the complete reeongm tion of the right of the States to reg ulate the intra-Sfate business of trasportation companies a absolute ly necessary," the statement con tinues. Friday's conference, which wa held at the suggestion of Governor Comer, of Alabama, was participated in by Governors R. P. Glenn, of North Carolina; B. B. Comer, of Alabama, and Hoke Smith, of Geor gia; W. D. Nfsbit, member of the railroad commission of Alabama; Judge L. D. Wearkley and Co). H. (',, Selheimer, special counsel fv Ala bama in the pndina rat litigation in that State; Aitumey.Ue neral John C. Hart, and Special ' Counsel J. K. TTines and Hooper Alexander, of Georgia. The declared object of the meeting was to reach an agreement if pos sible in methods to be pun-ued in en forcing the rate laws of tie State s in terested and also decide on some rate that would apply to the railroa.? of those States, the rates at present be ing widely divergent. Just what concrete plan was decid ed upon the Governors refuged to etate, nor would they gire out any of the details of the conference, be yond the statement that it was most satisfactory. The signed statement of the chif executiveg is as follows: "Our conference has been moft sat isfactory. We discussed conditions in our respective States and we sr raneed to co-operate in the investi estion of facts and law connected with duty of our States to the Com nanies. We will bUo co-operate with other States which havt the sane problems. We. regard the eoraplcta recognition of the rierht of the State to regulate the intrra-state businea of transportation companies as abso Intel v necessary. "No injury has been do.u to any eorporation in either of our States bv the exercise of the power of reg clation. Increased business as a eon sequence of reduced rates required by our State authorities has in ev ery case where fairly tried compen sated the corporations. "We deplore the fact that the rail road corporations have in some in stances been damaged by the effects of their officers to disregard the ac tion of our States. This has hap pened in every case where they have made allegations in the rt of sen sational claims of iniu rary to the facts. "When the railroad sora panics cease their false cry of confiscation and submit to the duly constituted authorities, upon which alone rets the right to determine questions of pnblie policy, the railroad companies may expeet a rapid return of public confidence and a restoration of nor mal credits. The authorities of onr States axe at all times ready to hear from the railroad companies fully and to aeeord to them treatment not alone just, but liberal. "The details of our conference we do not consider it desirable to make public at this time." B. B. COMER, Governor of Alabama R. B. GLENN, Governor of North Carolina. HOKE SMITH, Governor of Georgia. Attempt at Double Suicide. Sprlnfleld, ilass., Special Lying ia a precarious cMdition from bullet wounds jjear pielx hearts axe a couple who registered as B. W. &er wan and wife at the Highland Hotei They were vietims of a double shoot ing affray. It is learned that the woman fired a shot at herself in aa attempt at suicide. The man then seized the revolver and shot himself. Late JVebus In Brief A rew rilrv4 Pasiff rivrr, at ! uU tfti. c mi?j 4mcfkan, Iki t istt. ! kit is MtO Cabinet l;3r4 th aticn. Tly nraid it a i.rpftmrj daily. Ca tain Johntwn thick tUc brb r. f t'mtfJ Mat . a;t,! U a fruitful hum" of Iih.? rrH'.. GocrtHr lUnchatde of I.yiana, bo Las brru at the Ji-t' o J pciliun, ban Icfl Yui ta m tiifc-Mt, the Eipgaitiun official hiving cu ra pid fly ignored Ljie. I!ictnan Godfrey, of Norfolk, vti acqiitl of blaJJi far tic UHtr-C f a nrt ro hom be a ttjinj to arret Jodfe A. K. Icake din! in Goorh land county a a rrall of Lu 4itb trtAe of patftlywii- The Peanut Grorr' Acialjt?n met in Suff.jlk an! fittsl the pri of peanuts. Thr.a Johr.tm, a ncgrw a sen tences! to b harjrd on Ucrcmbr 13 for the murder of C. P. Hnead in King William county. William Smith, of Pammt, W. Vs., tired into a crowd and wounded seven j -ergons. The Pennlvauia Railroad Gm pany ha decided to drot.tinuc mork not absolutely necensary, aud acvcral other corxratior. have dropp'! thousand of employe from their payrolls until the financial sitnatiou clear up. Capt. Granville R. Fortcseue, a relative of the President, has been made special jntruetor of the Cu ban forces. Former Supreme Court Juitiea Fitz?ei!d, of New York, has Wen in dicted for grand larceny. Two deaths resulted from Hallo ween prank. The American Parentt'ltcnevolent Aj.or:ati'j has lwea oraniicd to pay members i'jQQ at tLe biilh of taeh child. An alleged boodling St. Louis Councilman has made a cnfion implicating others in a graft acbeue. There are refiorts of a ewrct con ference between tcl manufneturer at PitUburg to revise the old billet pool i.i order to avert ruinou compe tition. A verdiet of SO.OOO was returned against Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former piesident of the Wubah Railroad, m the euit of John S- Jones, a financier and eoal operator. Mary Donnelly, 9 years old, was as saulted snd murdered at Reaovs, Pa. Henry Kreise, of New York, wor ried so about his wealth he commit ted suicide. Advising fist fighting rather than hazing, the president of the North Carolina Agricultural College fctart l a Kcrie cf pitched battb-4 under oflicial rcgidation. Lieut George C. RfkweH's exact answeis to exaaiination q'lCktious tied up promotions of second lieutenant for months while his ta?-e was being investigated. Representative Gillespie declirci that Cortelyou has dhcriminatl against the fanners in favor of "stock gamblers.' Mr. Bonaparte in s Supreme Court argument upheld the F.rdman law, which prohibits the discharge of ea ployes for belonging to labor union. One of the scientists at the aero nautical congress ktatcd that a tem perature of 111 degre beiow zcra bad been recorded at a height of 4C,o0 feet. Wall street began to ft el the effect of the battle against the out i a? tion of credit, and tLe movexent of wheat, tobacco aud cotton is nlied on to bring large quantities of European gold. The Union Pacific Railroad drop ped several thousand men from it construction forces, but the Pennsyl vania Railroad Cmjany denied a re port of wholesale discharges. Rev. Dr, George C Houghton will hereafter refuse to marry runaway I couples in the Little Church Around the Corner. Mrs. Mary Scott liartje filed her answer to her lusbande brief asking to have the divorce tase reopened, and makes sensational charges. A student in aa Illinois school ob tained a verdict of $14,000 damages against five others for hazing lira. "Uncle Joe" Cannon's Presiden tial boom was launched in Chicago Chicago dive res suits last week amounted to 15 per cent of the mar riage licenses. iju3g Croeseup was indicted on a charge bf beu mpoou& tax a trol ley wreck in whiem IS people were killed. . Efforts are being made to get Em peror William to testify in the Har din libel suit in Berlin,