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A THOUGHTFUL TALK President Roosevelt Speaks to Pennsylvanians TliE!R NEW CAPITQL DEDICATED Cost of Ccnstruction and Interior De coration w3s $13,000,000. Building Ccvers Two Acres, Has 481 Rooms and More rloor Space Than Nation al CapitoL Harrisburg, Pa., Specia.-The new .apitol dedicated is one of the most beantiful and imposing buildings in the United States, not only in archi leeure but in interior decorations and funishings. Thus far the building a41d furnishings represent the expen liture of $13,000,000. The building is Roman-Corinthian in general de sig'n. faced with Barre granite. It covers a trifle more than two acres andl conssts of a main building and t wo wings,- the total length bein 525. and breadth 254 feet. suirmounted wih a dome rising 292 feet above the irst floor. The most striking feature ,.-t the exterior is the employiment of -;2 great granite monoliths. each wehing 35 tons. The building con t ains 481 rooms occupied by all the departments of the State government, invluding the supreme and superior <ourts. It contains more floor space ihan that of the Capitol at Washing ion. and more than that of the capital at Albany. The $9,000,000 spnt in furnishinz the building have beeni made I he campaign issue by ihe fusioi 4caudidates who are opposed to the Re publican candidates. The President's Speech. Tle Pincinai speech at tie dedi r-alioni I)', the new~ State capitol wvas; dieliverpd by President Roosevelt. The I'resident fl icitated Pennsylvania utp on the tile pvogress she has nade and; the great men she has produced. .If ier speaking at some length ipon th*! powers and duties of the State he ap pli:d limself for a while to more gen eral nA;.ters affecting the nation a large. Among other things the Pros ident. said: i do not come here to speak oil\ .&f the past. and still less to appeal merely ro State pride. We can show that the past is with us a living force only by the way in whieii we handle our.elves in the pre-sent. and <1*w1h of us cn best show his (e vo'tion to his own state by yuaking evidlent his paramotut devotionl to that. Union which includes all thle - tate:. The study of the great deeds of the past is of chief avail in so far as it ineites us to grapple reso tiely anid effectively with the prob Ii ms of the present. We are not 11r menaced by foreign war. Our Union is firmly established. Blut each izeneration has its special and( serious <4ieuiities5: and we of this genera tion have to struggle with evils spring ing fronm the very material success for which we are so proud, from the very growth and prosperity of which -with justice we boast. The extraor 4uary~ industrial changes of the last half century have produced a totally nz:-w set of conditions, under which new evik. flourish: and for these nlew evils new remedies must be devised. Some of these evils can be grap pled wit' by private effort only; for we never can afford t-o forget that in the last analysis the chief factor in person2al success, and indeed in niat ional igreatness, must be the sturdy. I self-reliant character of the indivi diial citizen. But many of these evils are of such a nature that no private effort can avail against them. These evils, therefore, must be grap pled with by governmental action. In somte cases this grovernmental action must be exerfcised by the several States indiividullv. In vet others it has ibome ine'rensinelv evident that no edicient State action: is pos sible. andl what we need thirough (se --ut ive aWtion. through legislation, and 1hiroug~h ?udicial interpretation and -onlstruc(ti:mn of law. to increase thc powVer of the federal gover'nment. Aftr: showing what has been done in the past fewyer to help along the adlvan:-ement of the nation lie 'aid: WXe h-:eve aicruall:. acecompoli'ed uen ( ut wei have not ac'complished all. norayhin lihe all, that we f'e:l mtust be' asomxplishxed. We shall not halt ."': . s; stendily follow the mit h we lbi ro"' n~rked out, executing the la ws we h:ave. :ucceeded in putting upon the stane books wvith absolute im. riaity* ~* as(' het1 man and miani, ai un si 'i ou endeavor to stre.......and suplemenI1Ct thes~ bly further I v's whch shall enable uts in mnorte ii-:i4 nt andl more su~mmar~ 1v fashon J. tohien the enids we hv o elsn his speech Presnidem it bhoovs v mer icans to look ahead and plan out the right kind of a civilization as that which we ini tend to develop from these wonderful new condlitions of vast industrial growth. It must not be, it shall not be, the civilization of a mere plutoe racy. a bankinag heuse, Wall Street symiicate c'ivilization: nor vet can the-re be submission to class hatred. to rncor,:' brutally and' mob violence, for that ~vnid mean the end of all eivil1 zai:m. Increased poweris are suscep) tihi,' of abnse as well as use: never before have the oportunities for .self ishness been so great, nor the results~ of seitishness so appalling; for in communities where everything is or ganized on a merely selfish commer cial basis, such selfishness, if uin checked. may transfor the great forces of the new epoch into powers of destruction hitherto unequalled. We need1 to check the forces of . reed, to insure just treatment alike of capital and of labor, and of the general public, to prevent any mian. rich or poor. from doing or receiving wroag, whether this wrong be one of eunning or of violence. Mutch can be done by wise legislation and by resolute enforcement of the law. But still more mnst be done by steady training of the individual citizen, in eonscience and ebaracter, until be -rows to abhor eorruption and greed and tyrainy and brutality and to prize justice and fair-dealin. The men who are to (14 1e wok of tbe new epoch nust be trained .o a. to have a sturdy self-respce. a power of sitrdy inis;Stenwe I'ln their own rights. and with it a proud and generous recogiition olf their duties. a sense of honorable oblization to their fellows, which will bind them, as by bands of steel. to refrain in their daily work at home or in their business from doing aught to any man which cannot be blazoned under the noonday sun. EHU0TH LEAgUE LESSORS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14. 'Vho is My Neighbor, and What of Hirn?-Luke 10. 29-37. Daily Readings. The sum of obligation to my neigh bor. Rom. 1:1. S-10. Setting a good example. 1 Pet. 2. 11. 12. Behaving wisely. Col. 4. 3. G. Pray for him. 1 Tim. 2. 1-. Peae him for his good. Rom. '15. 2. .ilust not. keep his wa:zcs. or gas about him. L.ev. 19. 1'. 1(. yvery man is not only neighbor but brother to every other man: this is the glorious democracy of the gos pel of Jesus Christ. In him thern1 Is :i--'ther rich nor poor, black nor white. bonzd nor free, barbarian nor Greek. What a contrast this to the usual vicws and practices of men. If .all men are our neighbors and brothers. then to them all we have certa. obligations that can be met .;nIly by the daily wayside ministry: only by sacrifice and loving service in the effort to bring to every neigh bo- and brother the great blessings wich we enjoy, for. "Thou shalt !ove thy neighbor as thyself." The road from .1crusalem to Jeri i-ho. full of ravines. cliffs, and cav c-rns, convenient lurking places for robbers, was known of old and to this day is known. as "the bloody way." t. symbol is it for the world's high ways along which pilgrims go to the quiet of the grave. A poor fellow. ..long that gory way somewhere, fell among thieveso. Priest and Levite passing sheered away from the naked. wounded body of the traveler. But a despised Samaritan succors the un ftirtinate wayfarer with opulence of kiindness and purse. "Who, of the three, is a neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?" asks the Say iour. And the proud Jew was com :elled. perhaps because the service rei'resented had been rendered to a Jew, to confess that even a Samaritan may be one's neighbor. And the i r clirnches the great argument in his~ usual practical way by saying. "Go thou and do likewise." Do as c~dren in the Reading for Tuesday and .hat a transformed world this would rpeedily become: one in which all men would love all others. none would 'vadie any other's rights and none would p)ut a stumbling-block in an at her's way. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOH NOTES OCTOBER FOURTEENTH. Who are Foolish, and Who are IWise?,Matt. 25:1-13. No one is wholly foolish or wholly wise:- but which is the balance and trend of your life? The highest wisdom always has re gard for the future: the dleepest folly lives only for the present. We are our br'others' keepers so far as we can help them, bnut the final issues of life and decath raust be met by each soul alone. Wisdom may be summed up in three words: "Ready for death.' Suggesticns. The foolish man does not think himself foolish: if he did, he would not be a foolish aman. Wisdom is a slow growth. but to come in touch with the source of all wsdlom is the work of an instant. What the world calls wisdom God often calls folly: which shall we choose? There is no betltr way to be'come wise than by living with wise men: r foolish. than by living with fool. No ar-tist is a *:o~od 1..: - own picture, whose faults le has wor!ked upon till he ceases to see them: nor in anv mian a good ob erver of his own folly. A writer who would judge his com position wisely must lay it aside for atime. So we must stand apart -rm our immediate lives if we would estimate our characters. No cop)y of a copy is good. but we aways pre fer to go back to the origi nls. Base yotu' life on Christ, and nt on even the best of men. A Cluster of . Quotations. Thc'gratest of foe's is he who Im poses ca himself, and thinkts certain ly he knows that of which he is most profoundly ignorant.-Shaftcsbury. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.-Rochefoucauld. True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what s best worth doing.-Humphrey.. ALFALFA. Alfalfa is a silent, persistent and effective subsoiler. Under favorable conditions the roots of alfalfa will penetrate to a depth of twelve feet or more, instances being on record of raots being found more than thirty feet long. The size of the root varies with the age oIf the plant, the diameW orat rhe cro-:.na varying fromi one half to two and one-half inches. Un der these conditions it is little won dri that land should be greatly bene ntedi by the growth of alfalfa. It is manifestly suiperior to the subsoil plow or any other implement which human effort has devised for' unlock ng arid bringing within the range of shallow-rooted plants the virtually in exhaustible supplies cf plant food 7hich are hidden deep in the bosom of the earth.-Northwest Pacific DEATH LIST HEAVY Many fatalities from Explo sion in West Virginia WORK OF RESCUE IS DIFFICULT Number of Bodies Have Been Locat ed by Exploring Parties, But Can not be Brought Up on Account of the Debris-Three of First Rescue Party Overcome by Gas, Two Los ing Their Lives-50 or 60 in Reach of the Explosion, But Number of Fatalities Among Them Not Yet Known-The Death List. Roanoke, Va.. Speial.-A speeial from Pocahontas at 11 o'elock Friday to The Times says: The work of resenin. bodies from the West mine has been in progress since early Wednesday night. The first rescuing party to go into the mine was beaded by Superintendent Wil liam S. Leckie, who took with him John Odham, W. R1. Talbott and J. J. Brown. This party had little success. as three members were overcome with: gas, Odham and Brown losing theCir lives. and Talbott being brought out unconscious. The mine was then bratticed as the rescuing parties pro gressed and at 9 o'clock p. m., they have about reached the place of the origin of the explosion. The body of one miner has been recovered ip to this hour. He is S. B. Cook, who was within 300 feet of the outside when found. He was the only survi vor of the explosion of 1SS4. A nuni ber of bodies have been located by the exploring parties, but cannot be brought to the surface on account of the debns occasioned by the terri fie explosion, which in some places has piled up timbers and dirt to the height of six feet. Those known to be dead are: W. C. Kelly, foreman; d. A. Dancey, G. Radford, H. Green, Will Davis, John Cumbee, Hall Rich ards, Samuel B. Cook; colored are Ed. Ward, John Green, Joy Palmer, Wil liam Mormian, Lightburn Woody, Ben Perry; Hungarians are. Paul Valsko, Bertie Estony, Joe Elash. There are supposed to have been some 50 or 60 people in this section of the mines when the explosion or-eurred, but a great number of them being -miners. there is no record kept of them, hence the trouble to state exactly those that have been killed. Eight Die in Quaker City. Philadelphia, S'pecial.-Eight men were killed and nearly two score of persons were injured by the explo sion of illuminating gas in the Mar ket street subway at Sixth street. High buildings were shaken by the force of the explosion and for a block on either side of the scene of the explosion nearly every window was shattered. The street caved iu. halting trafice and restulting in a sus pension, of business. Fire followed the explosion, but it did no damnage to neighboring buildings. The loss. is estimated, will exceed $300,000. First Atlanta Riot Arrest. Atlanta. Ga., Special.-The first ar rest in connection with the riot ' Saturday, September 22. whi-h re sulted in the death of 18 negrroe: and one white man, was made when Walter Edmonds, a butcher. was pla e-d in jail on a grand juryV initmclent charging mnurdler. Edmonds is charn edl with, having killed Frank Smith. a negro messenger, while the latteir wa: running acro'ss the Forsyth street viai duct pursuedl by a mob. The police say they- expect to make other areste shortly. Increase in Chester's Postoltice Re eeipts. ('hester. S. ('.. Sp eil-.-Thet repor fl t he audi(ltor of he~ Posto'filee I e part ment shows that t he reei pis at the I(Dru postolhee for~ the ytr~ <1 inig April 1st were $9.434.42. an in irense (of $1,543.65 ovr lhe preceed igyear. The business of the p)asi six mnonths shows an increase of $$i00 over the corresponding six months !ast year-, aind patrons of the local of fice are congratulating themselves that next year wvill witnesse the inst a!!a tion2 of free city delivery-. A New Association. Chatt anong. Spxria!. -The iri St a:e m-edical.oi ~ety dissolve-d a::d a in-sw m>oeition to be known as t he S 'other-n Me-dic-al Society was ~oforr ed. The old organization eniraced T ennessee. Alabama andI Georgia. T; men ~Stattes hLs been added Ken v~k. Mississippi. Floriida and Louis iaa nd the inteniton is to embrace !be other Southern States. Montana Wool Growers. Helena, Mont.. Special.-Pursuant to a call issued several weeks ago by Governor Toole, leading wool growers of Montana met here for the purpose o f considering tihe question of product. The gr-owers hope to devise some plan to effectively prevent alleged combin ations on the par-t of buyers. which this season. it is asserted, deprived Montana growers of about 3 cents a oond ourearly 40,000,000 pounds oZ wool. Fleet of Transports. Washington, Special.-Quar-termas tr General Humphrey is exerting all efforts to assemble a fleet of trans ports at Newpor-t News. Thirteen vessels should reach Newport News in the next few days. It is expected within a week that practically all soldiers destined for Cuba and who are going by way of Newport News NEW ORLEANS HARD HIT Cyclonic Disturbances at Least Three of Them Tornadoes, Rage Around Crescent City, the Third Striking the City Squarely, Damaging 800 Buildir gs and Injuring About 50 Persons-Six Killed and Nine Fa tally Injured in Neighboring Par ishes--City of Baton Rogue Slight ly Damaged-List of the Victims. New Orlez:ms. Special.--This region was Friday the center or evelonie disturbauces, at lea'st three of which were tornadoes. and caused the loss of six lives. with nine persons fatal ly injured. About (iylight heavy storms broke throughout the coun try within 100 miles west, north and east of New Orleans. Friday night reports of sugar cane and cotton crops blown down or sugar mills de molished are coming inl from this en tire section. while damage. includ ing that doune in New Orleans is pIeedplaced at over $1.000.000. The worst tornado was north of New Or leans, where it devasted portions of three praishes. Yew O.rleans was vi-i ed by another torniiado and an oiher pased northward of Biloxi on the (ulf coast. The first tornado struck west of Baton Rogue parish about 6 o'clock. killing Mrs. The6. Forest and her daughter, Mrs. White. Mrs. Forest's body was found in a field near her demolished house. Two children in Mrs. Forest's house were fatally in jured and five men were injured in the collapse of a sugar refinery on the St. Dephine plantation. The. city of Baton Rogue- was slightly dam aged. In St. James p1rish one wo man whose name has not been learn ed, was killed, while Mrs. H. R. Webber and daughter and Mrs. John Meyer, and also a. negro, were report ed fatally injured. Fifteen buildings were blown down in this parish. At Ponchatoula, which the tornado reached about 7 o 'clock. George Hawes and son were killed in tli collapse of their house and the two other children of Mr. Ha wes were fatally injured. A dozen other ner sons were injured there. Another tornado struck New Or leans about 8 o'clock. While no lives were lost here, proprety damage reached $500.000, and about 50 per sons were injured. Fully 800 build ings were damaged. about 75 of which were blown flat. Mortorman Suddenly Crazed. New York, Special.-A street ear tilled with terrified passengers dashed across New York at full speed while the motorman, Leo. Schwartz, sud denly bereft of reason, stood on the platform flourishing a heavy control ling bar and threatening to brain any one who approached him He was finally subdued and the car brought to a stop after a desparate struggle with half dozen policemen and street rail way employees, during which several passengers jumped from the swiftly moving car and sustained painful bruises. One of the men who fought the mad motorman was so badly 'in jured he had to be taken to the hos pital. Rocky Mountain Hotel Men, Denver, Colo., Special-The boni faces who extend cheer and welcome to the visiting tourist in Colorado gathered in Denver for the fifteenth annual meeting of their organization. known as the Rocky Mount Hotel Men's Association. They got together at the Brown Palace Thursday and spent the day swapping stories and incidentally discussing business mat ters of mutual interest. The mneetinz wil wind up with a big banqjuet. Postmasters Meet in St. Louis. St. Louis. SpecinrL-The naionialI association of pos:tmiasters of the first class assemblled in~ St. Loumis arnd be gan an three days 'li enietionr at l Hotel Jefesont. More thIan one hrunt dlred lpostmnast ers anrd assistanti~ pos - mast ers are in attenan r'e. TIhe busi nes~s mnaipped out for the' cen tiont consists largely -of dliscussionis on im provements of thle posta service in the~ large ciies. The Georgia Blection. Atflanta. Ga.. Spceci-Rehturns fromin Wednesday's State election inidic t e that a li;ght vote has been puled over the Stne The D~emocrat ie ticket. head-ed by~ Hoke Smith fon Gbovernor, has5 been elected by the usual mntjority three beio oposion eO xciiot the Soc 'iali. hearied byv J. B. Osborne. Re ns fr4'om the pritmary for thIe noinati;' on of .judges oft the new rourtt of \ ri ea"ls will be very lit e oni ie eount of the large nu mber o! cani di-Jtises. For Texas Development. Yoakum, Texas, Special.-Public men. railroad industrial agents arnd other interested citizens were p~resenlt here in considerable numbers at the opening of the big industrial develop mernt convention. Thre aim of thre movement is to exploit thne botnidless resources of this section and to pro mote imimigrationr and thre induistrtial development of this region. Five Passengers Killed. Troy. N. Y.. Specia l.-Tn a rear-end collision between ai regular pa;ssenlger an~d a heavv train of Pullman cars carrying the Fourteenth United States Cavalry from Fort Ethan Allen, five passengers were killed and a score or more injured, on thne Boston & Maine road just outside of Troy. Against Rebates. Washington. Special.--The national association of insurance commission ers adopted a strong resolution against the practice of granting rebates aa OffICER MOB VICTIM Mobile, Alabama, the Scene of Shecking Crime MCB kCUG IT T0 LYN(N RAPIST Afte: rein:; A.:d That the Crim inal They Sought Was Not in the Prizon, Members of the Mob Storm the Jail With Telegraph Pole and Open Fire, Killing Mobile & Ohio Special Officer Hoyle and Wounding Alderman Lyons. Mobile. Ala.. Special.-Roy Hoyle, a speeial officer of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, aind one of the most widely knowi and best liked men in this vi einity. was fatally shot, and Alder main Sidner Lvois. ehairman of the cltv coneil of Mlobile was slightly woumded in the hand diurilng a tight at the cout; y jail between deputy sleriffr: and a crowd of men, deter mined to canpturv Dick Robinson, a young negTo. The mob is still hunting the negro and will lynch him if pos sible. Tie negro, who. is only 17 years old. atjacked I1uth. the 12-year-old dignter of Blonut Sossaman. who lives abont three miles from here. The girl was passing a seeluded spot not far from her home when she was attacked. Later she was found lying uncon:seous by the road side and was taken to her home. De tectives were placed on the track of the nf.gro and within three hours he was catured. He was taken be fore the Sossamai girl who at oiec identified him. Deputy Sheriff Fatch knowui that the life of the negro whe Lalken by a mob if he brought hn It) the eitv. cansed him to be conveved to a station sevc:al miles up the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. He was not taken to tie jail at all and was at least incht miles from the city wlicn the mob, which determined to han- him. approached the build Ginners Report of Cotton Crop. Census Bulletin Issued Reports 2,044. 426 Bales of Cotton Ginned of This Ycars Crop. up to September 25th. Waishingaton. 1). C.. Special.-The Censas bulletin reports 2,044.42t; bales of cotton ginned of the present crop to September- 2-5. counting round bales as half bales. Vor the same period last year 2. 255.715 bales were ginned. Reports By State. The eesuts ginneing report by sta tes is as follows: Alabama 2.617; Arkansas. 1..34f: Florida 194: Geor ga, .3.55:3 Indian Terriitory. :40; Kentueky, 1: Louisian. 1.551 Mis sissippi. 2,657; Missouri 30: North Coroa. 1.567; ()klahom. 189; South Carolina. 2.:2; Tennesrsee, 2G4: Texas. 3.871. Gen. Funston in Command. Was.hin~gtoni. Special. -Secretary Taft cabled to the War ]Departm'nt req'uest ing ha BrigadierGera Frederick IFunston be de'signat ed to commrand the American troops in Cubt and the military secretary im mediately issued an order to that ef feet. Formal ordlers were also is sued to Brigadier G.teeral T. J1. Wint, commander of the D~epartment of Missouri, who reached her'' late Tu~es day night. antd who is to be in charge oftihe embarkment of~ the expedition from Newport Newvs. Tile orders show that the first expedition to Cuba is to be known as the first expedi tionary brigade. It is much larger than an ordinary brigzade. but t l1e War Department has deided to con sider it as sucht. General Winit left Tuesday nighlt for Newport News. It is not expected he will go to Cuba. Condition of Crop is 71.6 Per~ Cent. Washington, ID. C.. Special.-The Agriculture Department reports the COdition to September 25 at 71.t. The condition same date as last year was 71.2. The ten year average is t6.7. By States: \iginie. North and So' th (Carolina. G; : Georgia and Ala~he n . G: iF orb h. .4: 3 !sisd Tle.':., and I n'ib T~: erri ar. *! Ln Colector Duncan Arrested. Newbern. N. C.. Special.-Revenue L'illector Duncan01 is in culstodyi oE t he sheritt of ('raven count y because he refusedI to answer qpuestionts put to him while onl the witness stand by Sc. !tor Meore in regard to the g!renit ng of liquror lirense. .Judzre Shaw, preshling~ ordered.'C that the col'ter be behzinfrther inlvestigation1 be made Stock Zxchan. Snspends. Fit (u1 hin and 'tcj .ompany,.nronitor of1 aicotto n hnesoc ieshe 11i.!.. :i The cauise assigned by the mnanagers s the bad wire serviCe occasioned by continued rains. While no statemie:iL is forthcoming re.:arding~ the losses. it was stated autihoritatively that they may be able to pay dollar for. doli ar. Mr. Ferguson s:ays the business will be .resumedc. United Irish League of America in Session. Philadelphia. Penn.. Special.-The annual conventio'. of the United irish Lecague of Amerie2 opened with 700 dlerates. Among them are 0O'Dono 'an'Rossa, T. P. O'Connor, leader *f Ird-and's cause in the English Parlia-. rent, John Rcdmord and Edward Bske, members of the English Par limcent GOV. TAT IS W[LCOMLI "Long Live the Republic of Cuba" i Closing Utterance of New Provis ional Governor Upon Occasion 0 His Formal Assumption of Offic in Speech Nominally Addressed t University cf Havana. l:ivana, By Cable-The presene of the Seeretary of War of the Unit ed States in Havana and his assump tion o(f the Zovernment of Cuba wa unreservedly anl enthusiastically ap proved by the highest intellectual, so cial and business elements of the cap ital. The scene was enacted in the an ditorium of the University and th, audience, in addition to 75 students who, according to the custop here graduate at the beginning instead o: the e!ose of the college year, con sisted of 700 persons. divided equall: between men and women. The welcome accorded to Governo: Taft and Assistant Secretary o: State Bacon was unCxpectedly vigor ous and spontaneous. It began fron the moment of their arrival and in the moment of their arrival and in creased as the Governor uttered sen timents regarding the American oc cupation. which found an answering response in the hearts of all present Messrs. Taft and Bacon were deel3 impressed and encouraged by the evi dence that the provisional govern ment will receive tel best aid of th< leading (tibans. Inl his address to the graduate: Governor Taft spoke in the most fe licitous manner of the occasion AmoIng other things be said: United States Disinterested. "It is saddening to me to be call. ed to Cuba and st.il sadder to Presi. dent Roosevelt. who isso identitled with her liberation that we are her( at the time of a si umble in Cuba 't progress toward popular government but it has aiveti us an opplrtunitv to assure you ill the namne of the Pres. ident andl the American people inal we are here only to help you. With our arm under your arm we are lift. ilg you up a:tain on the path of tha: wondernl progress yon have travel ed. We shl*:il. I am eonident, be ah to point witn priie to the fact tia the United States is not an exploit !ng nation but that she has such deel sy mpathy with the progress of popu. !ar governnent as i1 be willing to ex pend her blood and treasure in inak ing the spread of eh government it the world suevessii. White House Tenanted Again. Wash ington1. Special. - Presiden and Mrs. Roosevelt andr three of th< ehildren, Miss Ethel and Archie ant Quentin. returned to Washington a 4.20 o'clock Mondar afternoon fron their summer home at Oyster Bav. L T., where t hey hiave spent the pp thr1ee mounhs. The P'resident looke< the piure ot hedlhh as he steppei from the train and cordially greete< a number of acquainta noes who wven awaiting his arrival. He and Mrs Roosevelt entered their earriage ani were dtriven to the White House. The President and his party occupied a special ear which had been attachei to the regular Penxnsvlvania Railroai train from New York. In addition tr his family those with him inclu~de( the wife of Seeretary Loeb and lbe in. .fant <-ilid. Mr. and Mrs. Cliffori Richardson, of New York. intimate friends of the President and Mrs Roosevelt. and who are to he gnests at the White House. and M. C. Latta the assistant secretary to the Presi. dent ,and several of thI White Houe elrical staY. Federal Authorities Hold Georgh Negro. Newport News. Va.. Special.--Unir ed States Commissioner A. C. Garret held for the Federal grand jury Fre< Bucks, the prisoner who was brough up on the cruiser Columbia from Cun ba. Bucks stabbed A. G. Guaniana mco last May. Since that time he ha been contIined on board the monitot Amphitrite. The prisoner and thret witnesses, two West Indian ne-zroes and a government habhorer. we.-eik to Richmond hy Deruy Mash West.. Boe!ks is a Georgia negro. Preparations at Newport News fot Handling Troops. Newport News. Va.. Specia.-Prep arations for handling troops going t< C'uba :are being comnpleted heore. Th< governmnent has leased 20 Gaeres o, lard oni the riVer abovo the cityv as: afo the~ couissary depot am e'nean nimen t. A cont jrac: has beer let to (rant & Co.. of lumber to h< nsed in the contsruet ion of ware houses and (orramis. $175,000 Railroad Shop Fire at At lanta. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.-Fire starte< Monday night at 9 o'clock in the rea of a wood shop of the Western & At lantie Railroad. and made such rapii p rogress that before it was ex tinguished the entire rerpair and pain shops. rouind-hou:se and 1S enginte th~ceri- were destroy:ed. The total los is estimated at $175.000. The fir wats en used by a spark from a palss Ground to Death in Stgar Cane Mi' Greenville, S. C., Special.-A ilttl daughter of Mr. P. E. Reid. living a Ebernezer this county, met a tragi death by being crushed in a sara cane mill. The chiid was playin around the mill when she was caud~ hv the beam and before the mill couil be stopped, she was horribly crushct IROOP TRAIN IN W E Fatal Rear End Collision on the B. & M. at Lansingburg. Speci~al Carry'n.- 1e Ata rmy Sol-7 diers ln3sbe into PaSsenwer Kx Signalily thi. eagineer &O .xop. a spec ial irain on the Boston and Maine - Railroad. bearing men and horses of - the Second Sq on, Fifteenth United Siates Cavalry on their way from Fort Ethan Allen to Cuba, crashed into the Boston Express. The meeting of the trains took place at the Lansingburg station, just north of Tro.y. Five persons were killed and fourteen others were ia jured. Two of the three Pullman cars at the end of the express train, which was standing on the track 100 yards from the fatal curve waiting for the northbound express to pass, were completely demolished. The last car was hurled down a thirty-foot embankment. All those killed were occupants of this car. Thirty others were in this car. The Pullman next to it was toppled over into the bank next to the track, while the third Pullman, the five coaches and two baggage cars of the train re mained on the track. The dead: F. L. .Block, a wealthy merchant of Peoria, Ill.; Mrs. J. W. Dacey. Arlington, Mass, married one day; Mrs. H. S. Poole, Concord, N. H., an actress of the "Silver King" company, and known on the stage as Miss Howard; Mrs. Wallace E. Shaw, Bath. Me.; Mrs. George D. Stevens, Winchester, Mass. The wreck occurred at a point where the grade is one of the steep est on the road. The passenger train consisted of a baggage car. smoker, day car and two parlor cars. There is a sharp curve a short dis tance away and the puffing of a loco motive just around the curve was the first intimation of the approaching "special" which came thundering along with eighteen cars on the steep grade. A second later it crashed into the rear end of the passenger train, smashing the two Pullman cars like eggshells. Many of the passengers had left the train when it stopped and were walking up and down the track when the crash came. To this some of them probably owe their lives. The troopers performed heroic ser vice. In the absence of the police, who were all in their annual parade, Lieutenant-Colonel Hardie in com mand of the cavalrymen, took com plete charge and established a cor don of pickets around the wreck. His men were impressed into ser vice, taking out the dead and in jured from the wreck and carrying them to places of safety. The troop ers acted as ambirlance men and as sisted in carrying the injured to the hospitals. None of the soldiers was injured. Their train was taken hack to Melrose, where the troopers camped that night. The death of Mrs. Dacey was one of peculiar sadness, for she and her husband -were married the night be fore at Arlington and were on their honeymcon, with New York as the objective point. Engineet Holloran says he saw a man and woman stand ing on the rear end of the Pullman car just before he jumped -from his engine.' The facts prove that this couple were Mr. and Mrs. Dacey. Mr. Dacey was slightly injured. He was one of the first to find his bride's body, and it is said that she breathed her last in his arms. PEAD WIFE SAT AWAITING H~I. Husband Stoops to Kiss Her, Only to Find Her Dead. Newport, R. .-Mrs. John 3. Sul livan was twenty-seven years old. On, his way home from a hard day's work, her husband bought a birth day gift for her. She was seated on the stoop of their little home. "Here's a little present for your bir thd ay, Ma ggie,'' said he. as .he as cended the stoop. "It's only a trifle, but you kn~oy:'. dear" H~e bent to kiss her. To his sur prise she was unresponsive. Fright ened, he tr'ied.to rouse her. and to his horror found she was dead. Heart disease h ad been' fatal. TWO THOUSAND VOLTS FATAL. [ngineer Stricken While Showing New Emdploye About. Wilmington. Del.-I-Howard Abbott, aged twenty-eight, an engineer of the W\ilmington City Electric Company, w.hile explaining the operation of switchesi to a new employe, was ee trioented. :1000 volts passing through his body. He showe-! signs of life afterward, but efforts to revive him were unav'ailing. iIU.LLS G ENE1RAL AT COURlT. .Xasn Shot Down While Attempt ing Second Murder. Askabad. Russia.-During the trial c2 the second section of the troops who mutinied here in Junne anx un known man entered tihe court room and killed the Jiudge Advcocate, Cen eral Kinktevich, and attempted ,.o shoot the president of the court. Gen eral Ushakoffsky. The assassin was siot down by an oficeer. Discuss Cuba's Anne';ation. - Talk in favor of annexing Cuba to the United States is rife in Havana. Refuses Burglar's Release Money. John Wipf, a truck farmer living a few miles west of Omaha, Neb., re fused an offer of $2000 to release from custody John Smith, a burglar, whom he had caught robbing his house. Palma Songht Intervention. -Secretary Root published corres pondence to show that Palma sought intervention in Cuba as early as Sep ,tember 14, and that the Government fmnally was forced to act. -Prominent People. Governor Hoch, of Kansas, Is for Roosevelt in 1908. Russell Sa;;e, like most misers, had a lot of proprtyQ tucked away ou of sight th'at is .iust co~ming to light. T'homas W. Law'on, of Bostor. nas abaendoned business comnpletely since the deathb of ihis w;ife, a~nd has re