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YP vo 71 g" 7 IS 41 L 404 Entered Apr tri k of aot P.ic of L.iXOKt D JUR 3I "TST PAcELS POSI Vostmaster General Makes i Series. of Recommendationp ALSO POSTAL SAVINGS BANKI lostmaster General Meyer, in -1H Annual Report, Eocommpnds t Congress the Trial of Both Them reatures ror Many Reasons. Washington, Special.-In his an maal report for the fiscal year endc -June 30th, 1908, Postmaster Genera Meyer gives the total receipts gor th4 .year as $191,478,663 and expendi 4ures as $208,351,886, thereby shiaw ing a deficit of'$16,873,222, the larg ,est in the history of the department with an additional loss from fire burglary, etc., of $37,056. The de :cit of 1909, it is estimated, agaii will exceed $16,000,000. Attention is particularly called t< a number of improvements in busi * of the department - a * , advantage and the sav derable amounts. Recom again made for the crea L.,_position of director o posts, at a high salary, and who shal hold office during good behavior, thq object being to have a continuity ol policies for the benefit o fthe posta service and the people of the Unitei States. Necessity of Good Roads. The necessity for good roads ii pointed out in .connection with th4 ^f rra deliv Ild thle depart route ient o: V *entire wouq litiona of dol -ofit the ie mer red b] -ostal card, whien other t be purchased. 'Th post,'' says the Post I "will enable ,the far - small parcels deliverr to live better and tt obta;n emwly the necessaries of-life.' Pcri:.i.sion is requested to establis! experimentally a limited parcel posi in not to exceed four counties in or der to demonstrate the praeticabilit. of tne plan. The Postmaster General agai urges legislation permitting the es tablishment of postal savings banki -or depositaries in connection witl postoffices. Stamp-Vending Machines. Experiments with stamp-vendini machines, says tha Postmaster Gen -eral, are still being conducted, witl -every prospect that the defects whiel Aeveloped in the preliminary testi 'will add immeasurably to the publi< -eonvemience. The campaign of education in th~ :school houses in matters pertaininf to the ordinary operation of the pes tal service, so as to emphasize th4 importance of careful addressing, th~ )placing of the name andl address o: the sender on envelopes, etc., is ree -oThmendled to be continued. so as t< save hundreds of thousands of let 4ets and packages from e.in to thi -dead letter otilee, each year as i mo~w the ease. A marked improvement in the ef. A ene of t e rie is no'ed b 44dy, is due to the poli in ' postmasters' of all oni * ords have been sati H1 '4deves, however, that ppoint. -*1nte of seqonid and fli as post ensters should lie with the Postmas ~ ~ is nowv the practie b' b.:. of1tees. This. he says ''to the President thi pc t - [' postmasters at thi *re mt, out offices and reliev' av v* f tmotit of routine worn * et is a tax u@o i his time. Remote Statighw $Avocated. The Postmaster ~1s puts h,iur --1f on record as be1 # d*l ly op a tge.I wh1j ibits th five ~1lesbAynk rd limits of a city, althOqgh tiesa, ol, kuch restrictions ex)its wth refereries to the extension 6fithe free deliv.eiY service. ..The depar ient, he declaIes, should not. e: pjkd 'in t66 positi6n, of ,being 'able to deliver mail fromi dooi to, door and 4t the same tibl 0? 'being forbiddej to' supply the, d FsUqot sooeryed with. the. other ushal tY coiveniences. Thd repeal of the la complained of -in urged. T 1mes-Zemiecrat's 'Bstinate of rop is 12,800,000 BAes.. New Orleans, Speoial.--Thd Times Democrat's -4ltimato on the cotton crop of 1008 is 12,800,000 bales. - War Seems Near. Und, By C ble.-It is generally agreed in well informed diplomatie circles that war in -the Balkans it very near and can hardly be avert e. The belief is .Joined in b.y all the newspapers of London. According to The Daily Telegraph, negotiations bq tween Russia and Apstria have pro gressed to such a point that their failure is a certainty. It is generally believed that Turkey; Servia and Montenegro have secretly closed an offensive and apfensive compact. Divide Wealth Says Carnegie. New York, Special.-''The commu nity makes wealth; 'divide wealth with the community." This is the keynote of an article by Andrew Car negie to appear in the December num ber of The World's Work. He shows how the people aro the real founders of great foriunes held by individuals and says they should get a goodly portion of these. riches when the build eri of the fortunes die. Indina to Unveil Shaft in -Georgia. Indianapolis, Ind., Special.-gov.: ernoi- Hanly and-staffn.d fifty othe' Indianans left for Andersonville, Ga. for the dedication of the Indiane monument to,inen of that State wh died in the famous civil war prison. The party ieln by way of Louisville On Thursday the Indiana monument commission will present the shaft tc Governor Harly,' who in turn wili present if to the Federnl government Twenty-Five Bodies Out. Pittsburg, Special.-Twenty-five bodies, all but two of them horribly mutilated, were taken Sunday from the mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal company at Marianna, forty miles south of- here, where an ex plosion occurred Saturday, killing many men and casting into gloom what was until then considered the model mining town of the 'world. Paper to Be anuact red From Cottgn Stalks. Washington, Special.-Paper is tA be manufactured from cotton stalks a heretofore useless by-product, ac cording to a repo) to the Bureau o1 Manufactures. A company, capitaliz. ed at $500,000 lhas been organized af Atlanta, Gat., for the purpose. It 'i claimed thnt paper can be made from cottonT stalks at a cost of about $1r per ton. The Uses of Authority. An )tdd.ition to the list of phrteeog logieal coinciaences shas just -been made by a speaker at the fteligious Congress now assembled in the Ox. ford schools. For a competent stu dent of any great subject there was, said Prof. Rhys David, ho better way of clarifying and increasing knowl edge than writing a book about It. Something like the saint sentiment was eipressed, a litt1hirniore cynioally, b)V t.he late Bishop Creightcn, at a Dictionary of National Biography ain 1icr. "Whenever." :he declared, "I hivn four"1 myself esTledilly ignomat of any suiet "1 have alwa,ys tt'led t" ret a commb"sien for an article 'mn it, P"d in this W2)y I have picked ,p re'1d1*41 of tiseful informa oin."-Westmingto~r Gazette. BTAND1ARD. P*e'-/.re 'you engagedl? lW'11a-Ye# I tohd him rny ringbd eat a sie York/ i xpIosion Leaves a '% WMangled Bodies TIlE 'RESCUE DIFlCULT ine a ctai by State Official Catastrophe and P 8-9Aaie--Modern Devices UW.,t,*Qte,tion. Pitt%biq; SPecial.--The last ray of hope fort4hq rescue of any one of ] the 125 rnore miners who were en tombed -'by In explosion at the Mar ianna n1in4" of the Pittsburg-Bfrfalo Coal compajil shortly before noon Saturday.was dispelled when the first I rescuing paiy reaced the workings and found:;the dead bodies scattered about the floor of the mine. Few if a roffthe bodies are muti lated and ..the"men were undoubtedly smothered by ihe deadly vapors which followed the explosion. The bodies have not yet been counted, but it is known that there are at least 125 and the numbor may be larger. All but two of-th.e bodies in the mine, it is said, are those of foreigners. No-effort has yet been made to re move the bodies from the mine. In stead the reseUrers and the mining experts are making a complete explo ration of all of the workings to see if they are now safe. This work-is ex pected to occupy several hours; P 'ittsburg, Pa., Special.-On the eve of the convention of the Amei4 can congress, which assembles here next week to enbider minipg prob lems in the various States if -:generil and particularly to, discusq mine oia asters anI &p,vi4 ' for ' ~revin)(e, the9 Art ,r-noonf-diffurdaa explo m. the MariAnna mine of the Pittsbur Buffalo Coal compapy which entomb ed and almost beyond doubt killed all of the men employed in the mine at the time, the number being. variously estimated zat froin 125 to '300. T1fhe uncertinty as to the exact number that prevailed throughout the after noon coninued when darkness. envel oped the new, mining -town from which the owners had expected- so much iii the wpy of 4agfy and com fort of the men' through the extra ordinary ptudy and ,expense that had' been devoted 'to 'tb f4ature iof the I developmont of .the'rew: coal field. T President John H. Jones of the -com- i pany said that the number of en- I tombed men would not exceed 125, t but neither he nor iY other officer ' of the comp ny has been able up to t this time tP locate the books which t contain the names or numbers of em- t ployes and show those- in the work ings at the time of the explosion. The workings .in which Saturday's catastrophe happened are known as the Rachel and Agnes mines, in real ity a double mine with nnderground connections. Construction work was practically finished, and Deputy State Mine Inspect.or Henry Louttit,a few minutes before the '4xplosioti had completed a two - -days' inspection which had reyealed no' cause for ap prehension. He and' Qeneral Man ager Kerr of the companz came to the ,surface ini the cake 'operated in ohe of the shafts a few minutes be fore 11 o'clock, Wfne Foreman Hen ry Thompson and two miners entered the cage, and it was started towards the bottom of the 500-foot shaf't. There was an omiiious rumbling. the a trembling o'f flie ground round abo the mouth of the shaft as from ' an earthquake and an instant later there was a terrible, report and the caet was hurled up the sha.ft and C through the roof of the shaft house d I the mine formean and the two men still, in it. The bodies of the men. were hurle1 through the t'op of the buflding and far beyond it. Thomp- I s6ni *as (dend when picked up, while the hjers, although nortally injured, W~e,l1urriedl to a hospital. . Sbsitered portions of the woodwork I ablout;.lae mouth of the shaft Were ,j blowi4iIrto Ten, Mile Creek, '2,000 feet from'.be sh:f.. Portions of at leapt ' two "*ter bodlies were blowvn from ~ the eha1n and were founnd in the fields 'N net The venitilating fans we4 put dQ .4j commnh'ions by the exp. sion, 4, for several hours iio^~r medj' own .t) e plosion1:; 1esh 1 Volume of smoke issued from :heshafts but ceased (t short time-.4 ewards. ,1seuo work wis immediately start ad but it was impossible to gain en brance to the mine for a long time. l'ht opehing up of the shaft was the )mlly solution and for this task there were volunteers iri numbers. Relief parties on special trains !rom the city including the chief of leers of.thb corapAny and minig ex )erts from the United States labora ory and testing statiQn,.recently es 'ablished here, who took with them ill of the latest appliances and de 4ces for resene work. Several experienced miners -de ;cended the steps inside the shaft and iucceeded in reaching the bottom. lere they.,found further progress )arred bccause the lateral heading' !rom the bottom of the shaft into he mine proper was coked with nuck and debi-is. The largest pos iible force was at once put to work o open this passage. There was.practicali,y no hope from he first of any of- the eptombed men >cing taken out alive but this did not leter the- most strenuous efforts to murry the opening of the mine. The Flot Coming Home. MIanila, By Cable.-With the de arture from Manila December 1st of ;ho American battleship fleet under he command of Rear Admiral Sperry ;he sixteen ~vesscls that are makin' iuch a remarkable round - the world 7oyage turn their prows definitely ror home waters. They have been tone from Hampton Roads. nearly a Vear. If the record established up to the present times is mantaied the leet will retu'rn honie without serioup ceident of mishap of any kind. Divorce Evil on Increase. Washington. Special.-The divorc rate appears to be much higher ir the United States than in any .of t1U 'eign countries for which Atatistic. mg to the subject have been ob tained not less than one marriage it twelve in this country ultimately tor. jainating in divorce. This fact hat been ascertained by the cen jus whie has just completed a compilation oj statistics of marriage and divore covering the twenty. years from .S8 to 100 inelsive. .midgration Fund Short. Washngtin, Special.-Congress will 'ace a deficit in the immigration fund' y reason of the extraordinary ex enditures by the immigration com riission, which has been carrying on ts work .. under, an indeflnite ap >ropriation. The money to, defrqy he~ expenses of the commission, ,hich has bee-n conducting investiga ions into all. bases of the immigta ion. question, has been dy-awn from he regular immigration fund. Florida Exposition. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-Janu.. Lry 20 to March 20 ate th6dates set "or the 1909 Florida lxposition F4i nd arrangements for the big wint i ;how are already befuag mad'e. Indica. ions point to an unprededen ted rusi )fNorthern' toqtrists to Florida thi. vmnter and nearly all of them Wil >robably take- advantage of the op >ortunity to inspect the fair. Investigating the Wrek. New York, Special.-The -govern ment began an investigation into the rmso.~ of the wreck of the steamer 'inance, The Finance had three. 'atontight comtpartments and only ne was. punctured; yet the ship sank. Jipping metn say that inder hormial O.nditi(mns the ship should have re mainued afloat. Her condition on saving port will he closely inquired Ito. ndiana to Unveil Shaft- in G.ga Indianapolis, Ind., Spteial.-%if. rnor HJanhy and staff and fifty 6t%ter ndianan,s -let for Andersonville~ Ga.; or the dediention of the-. lndiana rionument 'to maen of that State who iedl in thi: famons civil war 'prison, The palrty went hy way of LQuisville. hn hrsday tho Indiana .nidnmnuen) Iommission, will present i o shaft to ln enor Ihlanly, who n tirh wt) wie.. it it to the Fedelri'~ pmd'11 1 M, . . . . . )ery'.Q%iM,~ SPLENDID-WORK O_RUS'r RS The Georgie; oS the hi ta and the Steamsh$p had.,o ut ward Bound, Come T t60e4 a Fog off Sandy, ook--Ttie!es sengers and One of the C'e- th Financo Find Watery Grav6s'j-. New York, Spedia.-In the- thie'c ok a fog off Sandy Hood the' stot' steel freighter Geoigie, of the Whit e Star Line, iammed and sank tho lightly ldden Panama steamer nance, outward bound witfi 85 ps sengers, the Fin*ance going 0o0 c within ten minutes, carrying to their death three of ber passengers arif one of thq crew. , The rest of. t passeng'ers who included 19 wo'm and 14 children, as well as others the crew, were rescued 'by the boa of the Gcorgic. The freighter w. not damaged. Miss Irene Campbell, of Panarr), a passenger who was lost clung frart ically to the rail of the sinking vesi . and could not be persuaded to relea.;, her hold nor were the men who man ned the small boat's able to forcib: re;nove her. She was seen elingi;: determinedly as the vessel Was (, gujfed. William H. Todd third w, sistant engineer,' jumped ovdrbon-A and was lost. When a roll call - the passenges of the Finance -. called, it was found that Clarlps Schweinler, a policeman of Panar and. Henry 'Muller, a railroad contr tor of Panama, had disappeared, a nA there is little doubt that they wi drowned. fie disaster occurred in the mn;; ship. channel off Sandy Hook at ? o'clock in the tuorning, and a b,. vessels were groping their wy through a fog. The Finance 1had weighed anclm-r and was picinkg' her way down 0:,j Swash channel, when Captain Mo, bray, who was on the bridge, he&. I the whistle of an ~approaching liner. The Finance was immediately ' astern and was slowly backing wl the Georgic, in-bound from Liverpt loomed out of the fog and a mom later crashe-d into the port side iid just abaft of the Finance. The pr1 of the freighter penetrated the tAide of the Finance nearly ten foet, te ar ing away an unoccupied state ro.,i and leaving a ragged hole throigh which the water rushed iti. The P., amat steamer heeled far over to strbhrd. while men and . won , na3y of whom had been awakei-c' from a sound sleep, were throwin f, ri their .bertis. Hastily covering thi selves with hod clothing they ru. d in a panic to t,he main'deck, wich was fast snking to the ,surface of the water.* Many 'passengers juniped Overboard, not stoppine even tb pro vide themselves with jife ps:eservers. That more were not lost was due in the discipline Afthe crow of' the Ii nance and-the prompt and ittllig work of the sailors from the Geore. Jmmedistelv after the accident Mighter backed Eff arnd ancho' Ser mman4wr, Captain. Clark, the meantifsae.havlig ordered thle I boEi lowered. The b4mts of the ha'ne" ere also out away as quie as 'possible, thoiugh with diflfeu; becaud.?f the -heavy list of thse si,. tng stejmer. A.soe er more of those who .juo~ e radwere iecked i'p by smal1 -bonts. Meantime thle FJne - weS.-settling.-s%adily. 'To ndd to. eenfus'en. A moment pffr, the'gp ptthere was ans exrplnsion$ autsmonia tank in ft" forwrI ) Y., of the Finance and the fum* i v the engin cep -and firemen b-it . d,eeks. William Tod d, the this. sistarrt .'6pg'neer, w as partially como htIse finn*e, and stagge the rail, threw himself oveth~ 1 WAS not seen aan. Proba of the passi-.rers with j ,t6oll hv he ship, awai S,utd -thre, were go)tten t*' h e a rhahlo expedjtion .j4