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r f. * ? sbkesfIIIBCE "1 ADOPTED BY REFORMERS, 1 bkilnflnlnkin Pnnirropp Tilrae I In fllliaucipilia UUIIJJIGOO I a no ^ up the Proposed Uniform Law. ^ | A DISCUSSION OF INSANITY List of Disabilities and Conditions ^ That Justify Annulment of Mar- u riage and Causes That Render 5 5*1Divorce Practicable. g Philadelphia.?Headed by Gov- E ernor Samuel W. Pennypacker of : Pennsylvania more than a hundred 5 ^ men and women, bishops, Governors, jurists, clergymen and sociologists, r representing nearly every State, gath- |< . , ered here to frame a uniform divorce 3 law. 1 v 51 i As alwost every delegate has a a pledged that the laws suggested by ?: the congress will be passed by the t< B Legislature of his State, the draft a H which the delegates will frame may ? H become the divorce law of the whole ] g? country. j The two important things settled ^ were the causes tiat should permit 3 m annulment of marriage and the ^ Ijj^^eauses which should permit the granting of absolute divorce. t] Briefly summarized, the draft u adopted gives the following causes 5 of annulment of marriage: U Incurable impotency at the suit of n either party, provided the party mak- y, ing the application for the divorce b was ignorant of such incapacity at rj K^.1*he time of marriage. i Consanguinity or affinity according y Bl: to the table of degrees established by R law, at the suit of either party. It is b Kl.. provided, however, that when any such marriage shall not have been a H. inquired into within the lifetime of 5i j K;-. the parties the validity shall not be u j |V Inquired into after the death of either q HI When marriage was contracted b /Vhiie either of the parties had a hus- a p#^/band or wife living. g K-.; Fraud, force or coercion at the suit [|i$ of the injured or innocent party un- d P less the marriage had been confirmed ? H by the acts of the injured party and d rey|3>80 condoned. g !&,' Insanity, provided such insanity si Wmg existed at the time of the marriage and was unknown to the person mar- o f frying the lunatic. F H$_^At the suit of the wife when she is tl ! Bp Under sixteen, or if the husband is ti H$. under eighteen at the time of mar- h Kl riage, providing that such marriage N K?" shall not have been confirmed by her |?; or him after arriving at the age of s sixteen or eighteen. c gta For absolute divorce the causes are d SprW'as follows: d m INFIDELITY, m r:> felony, t: :.' / mrt im' pa^j; x, 4 [CL"'v DESERTION, fi ; HABITUAL DRUNKENNESS, c INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. C It is pointed out by the committee h that these six causes for absolute diPV. vorce are already incorporated in the f< |? laws of forty of the forty-five States, a although other phases of the divorce 1 Sr^^Iaws are not uniform to that extent. t< Another important clause in the ' -, bill is to decrease the number of mi- C gratory divorces. The various Legis- a latures will be asked to agree on a b period of residence before application y 'vfciay be made for divorce. - u l There was opposition to the clause e ?inulling the marriage of a girl un>.*lSr the age of sixteen and a youth j finder eighteen. Ernest Merten, of |t , JlS?00113*11' a giH under y P^AKhteen was incapable of making a r^^^oper marriage contract, and Frank H Kprr. of Ohio, favored the law o? his State, which makes the marriage ii of a boy undej; twenty-one and a girl ti fc: under eighteen void. J Miss Rachel Siegel, of Utah, the p only woman speaker, held that six- p . teen years for the girl was all right, p afc. She said: "We women ought to ? F know." The clause was adopted. d Though personally opposed to di- p vorce, Bishop Shanley voted for the sections in behalf of his State be- a cause the other delegates were not w Eg/ present. C |. : NO MORE KISSING GAMES. a Maiden Authorities Blame Young- 11 B sters' Play For Diphtheria. Maiden, Mass.?Kissing games are under the ban of the Maiden city authorities because of diphtheria, which ^K hns atreadv caused the death of two E ^^ftechool children and the illness of half dozen others. 1BH& As the cause of the spread of the ^ jLssase was said to be oscillatory * | . sames indulged in by the children, ? IvfP school committee and the super- ? |m ijatendent of schools have ordered all ;lbch play to cease. Kg f. "The kissing must stop," declared ? ^^Superintendent Harvey.. "I do not }} ^^^frpprove of it under any circum- ? ^?HOT DEAD BY BURGLAR. ? ' 1 Deputy Sheriff Surprises a Thief and is Killed Dy *irst liunet. Poughkeepsle, N. Y. ? Deputy Bheriff Eugene Cribley, of Dover Plains, Dutchess County, surprised a burglar at work in the office of L. L. 0 Colllgan's meat market late at night. ^ The burglar fired one shot at him, the ball puncturing his right lung s ind killing him instantly. The bur- c glar disappeared witnout plunder and n leaving no clew. Cribley left a s widow and four children. ; n Increased Service Recommended. ' The State Board of Railroad Commissioners met at Buffalo, N. Y.. and o Kmmended that the New York ti ' Railroad Company cause the v\ Ice on all its lines operated by p ricity in the Borough of Man- v Pan, between tne nours or b.su ana n m. and 5 and 7 p. m., to be insed ten per cent. Count Wlttc Unnoticed. The return of Count Witte to St. \ Petersburg, Russia, was unnoticed. s b PRESS AGENT FOR CHICAGO. Proposition to Pay $10,000 a Year For a Good "Boomer." o Chicago.?The City Council and ? Mayor Dunne believe Chicago should fc have a $10,000 press agent. An J; ordinance creating the office has been t I l\*r AHarmon PnTii/OfQl 1 lUUUUU^CU UJ XliU^iiiiuu a V.? v*M. I The official title of the press agent 1 may be "Commissioner of Industry." I Wall Street Pleads in Vain. p fi Secretary Shaw visited Wall Street s L and could not see that the money ? lituatioD reauired Treasury relief. 0 ? fifllild RFTS OtVQRGF I IIEI2JI WWW??r w - - - rench Court Refuses to Aliov/ Alimony to Casteiiane. telief That the New Mme. Gould . "Will Treat Him Generously in Eegard to Money. Paris.?Sustained In overy aliegaion, the Conn Less de Casteiiane, forlerly Anna Gould of New York, ; btained a divorce without the nal resort to a public trial. Count toni did not receive the slightest onsolation from the court. The nly ruling that favored him was hat the Countes could not take their aree cnnaren out 01 trance wirnut his consent, but even this order >st its value through the rider that hould the Count prove ''unreasonble" the mother may obtain permi?ion from the court. The children re given into the care of the Countss, and Boni will only be permitted 3 see them under the roof of his lother. The decision was received with reat joy by the Countess, who under tie French law now will be known s Mme. Gould. Her three sons, owever, will retain their rank, the ldest being in line for the title of is father. The developments in court showed aat the Countess at all times ha3 een moved with a spirit of genersity toward her discredited spouse, t was brought out that she had not withdrawn her offer of $30,000 a ear. The court ruled that the Count y his infidelity had forfeited his ight to a penny of his wife's money, nd it is in the power of the New ork girl to leave him penniless. Count Boni de Casteiiane may now e said to have no home. He is staylg for the present with his father nd mother in Rue Constantine. He till owns some estates consisting of tiree chateaux at Rochecote, Grigan and Acosta, forest lands at leugnies and a farm at Boutassaint, ut most of these estates, it is said, re heavily encumbered with mortages. He has 4,000,000 francs worth of ebts. How to get rid of this loan rill probably puzzle him unless he ecides to become as successful as a entleman farmer as he was as a ociety man. Anna Gould, youngest daughter f the late Jay Gould, married Count aul Marie Boniface de Casteiiane, tie eldest son or tne Marquis ue uasellane, at the New York house of ,er brother, George J. Gould, on larch 4, 1895. Miss Gould's dowry was undertood to be $18,000,000, and her inome $600,000 a year. Much of the owry went to pay off the count's inividual and family debts. The couple went to France and heir extravagant manner of living uickly attracted attention. About ve years after the marriage the ouple were reported to be finanlally embarrassed. It was said they ad already spent $7,000,000. An adjustment of their affairs was ound necessary, litigation followed, nd the Gould family intervened, 'he countess' income was cut down 3 $200,000 a year. The three children born to the lastellanes, who are to be educated ud brought up as French noblemen y Mme. Gould, are Boniface, nine ears old; George, eight, and Jay, amed after his maternal grandfathr, four years old. . 1). ROCKEFELLER INDICTED. [ust Face Ohio Jury on a Criminal Trust Charge. Findlay, Ohio.?Indictments cnarg- , ig violations of the Valentine antirust law were returned by the Grand ury against the Standard Oil Comany of Ohio, John D. Rockefeller, resident of the Standard Oil Comany of New Jersey, and M. G. Vilas, [. P. Mcintosh and J. M. Robertson, irectors of the Standard Oil Cornany of Ohio. The order was due to the course dopted by these men in connection rith the trial of the Standard Oil lompany of Ohio here last Septemer. Subpoenas left at their homes nd in Cleveland were ignoved. In tvo cases the subpoenas were torn p in the presence of the Sheriff by omen of their families. DIES FROM KISSING CORPSE. laughter Develops Blood-Poisoning From Father's Body. Trinidad, Col.?Because 3he kissed he face of her dead father, whom she ad nursed until death claimed him, Imaline Martinez, aged twenty years, allowed him to the grave. Several days ago Isadore Martinez 4<*il frnm hlnnri-nm'snnine-. When he ad been prepared for burial his aughter could not resist the impulse o kiss him. The next day she fell I. Her sickness soon developed into lood-poisoning and in twelve days om the death of her father she died, "hey lived at San Miguel, fifteeu liles from this city. Platts to Separate. After scarcely more than two yea:?: f wedded life, Thomas C. Piatt, the ged United States Senator from New 'ork, and his wife have agreed to eparate. In the formal statement, oming after months of reports of luch unpleasantness and hints of candal involving both, the cause for eparation is given simply as "unappy differences." Colorado Mountain in Eruption. Mount Culebra, forty miles west f Trinidad, Col., is reported in erupion. Postmaster Sterz, of Stonewall, rho lives within twelve miles of the eak, sent word that smoke and apor can be ssen issuing from the mountain. New British Ambassador. Mr. Lowther, the British Minister o the island of Crete, will succeed ir Mortimer Durand ag British Amassador at Washington, D. C. "Yellow Dog" Custodian's Pica. Couusel for Dr. Gillette, custodian if the "Yellow Dog" Mutual Life und, urged in New York City that lis client's indictment for perjury ie dismissed, as he had finally told ne trutn anoui me iuuu. King Visits King. The King, Queen and Crown >rince of Norway arrived at Windor Castle for a state visit with King 2d ward V11. and Queen Alexandra f England. . '. \ 1 , " J ' . " . , . . , ' ' . ,'i -:"Vi % Is MM SWEEPS PITTSBURG Murders and Robberies*by Whole sale There.; SHOOT AND THEN ASK QUESTIONS Councils Enlarge Police Force Speedily in Response to Public Clamor For Relief?Woman Attacked in Her Kitchen. , Pittsburg, Pa.?With three murders, sli hold-ups and. an attempt at crucifixion marking the criminal record of twenty-four hours, and al most 200 burglaries and hold-ups listed on the police records within two weeks, this city was in the throes of the biggest criminal wave in its history. The residents are terrorstricken, and 100 additional policemen were put on duty and several vigilance committees were organized. The latest hold-up was committed when Mrs. A. G. Boykin, a wealthy woman, of No. 2709 Wylie avenue, was ppsuited and robbed by thugs befor a large crowd of men and women in the heart of the business section of the city and within a stone's throw from the Central Police Station as she stepped out of a large department store. Fully a hundred men and women saw the robbery, yet not one of them interfered. They stood in openmouthed astonishment at the temerity of the highwaymen and permitted the robbers to escape without making the slightest move to stop them. The crime, coming on top of the others, stirred the city to such an extent that the Common Council at once voted to put on the extra policemen. The East Board of Trade appointed a vigilance committee that will patrol the East End, and instructions have been given to the members of the committee to shoot first and ask questions afterward. So frightened are the inhabitants here that few women were seen in the streets. No woman dares walk through a dark street unless she is accompanied by two or three men, ' and even in the daytime women fear to go out alone. The greatest anger was aroused by the attempt to crucify Mrs. Jean Mitchell, nineteen years old, in her home in Forbes street. She entered the kitchen of her home and as she did so she was struck on the head with a hatchet. Two men shoved her against the draining board of the sink and nailed her hands to the board. They were about to nail her feet to the floor when a noise in the hallway frightened the men and they escaped. Word was received that the woman's husband'was arrested in Canton, Ohio, on a charge of knowing something about the crime, but he said he had been in that city for a year and.that he could prove an alibi. He also said he was willing to come to this city without requisition papers. ftWAFTKR'S RATTLES OVER. Victor of Santiago Dead at His California Home. Bakersfield, Cal. ? Major-General Rufus Shafter, U. S. A., retired, died at the ranch of Captain W. H. McKittrick, his son-in-law, twenty-six miles south of this city, after an illness of seven days, despite the best njedical attention available in California. William R. Shafter was born at Kalamazoo, Mich., on October 16, 1835, and in his ewlv Jfe was a farmer. At the out{??j_?h^ Civil War, however, he ejK^LiJ^.^^Seventh Michigan Infar >te. In the regular axrv.v; . - ; . -ivil War, Shafter aal against the India/' When the new v~ organized for th< May, 1898, Shaf^^.^r jor-general. He^ mand and cond, . campaign. A, 11 WOMAN SC* Colorado Leader^ Women W ! -r?V' Denver, Col.-' of the Demociv parties said th again be nomln\ ' office. They sal'"' with the public f en are not wantr X 11C0C 7Jfc'. [jM-; . . v suffrage in Coll \"_v . . coming a farce* , . r " - ; ~ assertions to tr. the rank and fi? ' included, wish J&te fB&aaEMftra ated from politic^ . Escaped Boml, A bomb throw A bot, prefect of pol>, short. The genera^: hurt, shot and kilrpsSfrj^.lg who threw it. JV. 53 Panic in Evansvi><&& " Xft A fire in a threatreW ' ^ Ind., was followed bi which several persons vWh<' ^under foot and seriously h\^ Bandit Becomes Governor. Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, was made governor of a town, and ita * ii provinces uy uie ounau. Silver Purchase Declined. Secretary Shaw declined offers of silver at;, seventy-two cents a fine ounce. Engineers' Demands Granted. Officials of the D., L. and W. Railroad granted the engineers' demand for shorter hours and-higher pay. First Colored State Fair. The first State fair for colored people in the history of the race is now in progress at Macon, Ga. Labor World. Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers' International Union held its annual convention at Toronto, Canada. The strike of machinists on the Southern Railway was amicably settled and the men returned to work. The Textile Council at Fall River, Mass., has asked the Manufacturers' Association for a ten per cent, wage advance. An international union of metermakers and repairers is suggested, J x 1 ? / TVf #-? r*ci \ eontinn ana tut; new duoiuu v iuao^. / of the craft lias unanimously Indorsed thejdaa. ' - 2 : ' ' ; J-IJ&V '5 " . . r i f% ' ; v' < r , gjjr^ ' ' v, THE PRESjBENI'S ORDEF Negro Soldiers Discharged a Fort Reno, Oklahoma. T'le Officers Cannot Believe Thai They Themselves AVill Be Court-Martialled. I Fort Reno, Oklahoma.?The ordei for the discharge of the 167 negroes comprising Cos. B, C and D, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who were sta tioned at Fort Erown at the time o: the trouble there, was received here It reads: "By order of the President the following named enlisted men, who, or August 13, were members of B, C and D Companies of the Twentyfifth Infantry, which took part ir the trouble which occurred ir Brownsville, Texas, on the night ol August 13, 1906, will be discharged without honor from the army bj their respective commanding officers and forever debarred from re-enlisting in the army or navy of th< United States, as well as from employment in any civil capacity undej the Government." The names includc those of several men whose terms of enlistmenl has expired since the Brownsvllk affair and have already been given honorable discharges from the service. Eight of these have re-e^listec in other companies and regiments. All of the officers at this post, including those of the Thirtieth Infantry as well as of the Twenty-fifth believe that everything possible ha? been done to detect the men who engaged in the Brownsville rioting and they will not believe that there wil be any court-martial of the officers in command at Fort Brown. "We have tried to shield no men but have used every effort to find th( guilty ones," said an officer of tht dishonored battalion. "As the tim( for the discharge of the troops has neared, they have redoubled theii efforts to find out the guilty-men They have kept the men under th( closest espionage. They have notet what men seemed to chum together their actions and anything else thai might lead to the detection of th< guilty men." Many of the men now to be dis honorably discharged are veteran; who have served in Cuba and in tht Philippines. At El Caney the. regi ment was at the front and two o the companies were in the very hoi test of the conflict. Their conduc excited praise. As they marchet back from the bloody slope aftei victory had been won they wer< greeted with cheers by the Seconc Massachusetts Volunteers- Durinj the service of this regiment the de sertions and absences without leave were comparatively few. Of the mei to be mustered out fully seventy pei cent, have won medals and decorations for meritorious service in Cuba and the Philippines. ROOSEVELT ARRIVES AT COLON Warships Make Panama Port Ahcni of Schedule Time. ' Colon, Panama.?The first trip oJ an American President outside of thf boundaries of the United States was successfully ended when the battleship Louisiana, having on board Pres ident Roosevelt and his party dropped anchor in the harbor ol Colon. The Louisiana, which arrivec ahead of schedule time, was convoyed by the. Tennessee and the Washington. The three Vessels anchored about a mile from the landing in i heavy rainfall. Owing to the fact that the Louis iana arrived ahead of time, neithei President /Amador of Panama noi Chairman Shonts of the Isthmiai Cans' Commission was on hand t< we^Vie President Roosevelt. afternoon President Roose Wed the local newspaper cor v on uoaru Ajuuiataua w^at hia voyage had beei A ad uneventful, and .ex ?Kcnself as gratified at thi ? He said he proposed tc ?: he Jamaican labor ques Kj'lso intended to see every wble concerning the canal. >. * ? '' ' J | TO PRISON FOR LIFE . - ?' - u L's Indiscretions Restori , s Morder Sentence. Icolis, Ind.?W. E. Hin ?;mer clergyman, convictec f,r wife murder, and sen ; 'prison for life, but parolee tfr'was before Governor Hanly ffeSd with wrecking the home o: ; iff-Elect George Freeman, o: , .v^ash County. After hearing th( $ence the Governor ordered Hin returned to Michigan CItj ^2"iin for life. ^^JD.nshaw admitted correspondent Mrs. Freeman since paroled H^^ing her by appointment and go ' \* -Vith her at night to a hotel al 7 '"' ;ERS INVADE CAPE COLONY. P/ " ? ^ties of Freebooters Enter Britisl Territory?Police Meet Ferreira. /Cape Town, South Africa.?Ac ^ ding to information received hen ^{ie colony has been invaded by tw( parties of Boer freebooters, in ad dition to the men operating unde: Ferreira. The police have had an ineffectua encounter with Ferreira near Uping ton. Edward Honored Haakon. King Edward invested King Haa kon, now in London, with the Or der of .the Garter. The ceremony o investure was the most brillian pageant of King Edward's reign. Ohio Faces Coal Famine. Ohio is in the grip of a coal fam ine. The shortage of cars and th( demands of the Northwest are givei as the reasons. The famine is fel especially in the manufacturing cities. Prominent People. The University of Edinburgh ha conferred the degree of LL. D. upoi Andrew Carnegie. The American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, has elected Rev. Dr "Edward Everett Hale as nresident. Pedro Alvarado, who dug 5150, 000,000 out of Mexican mines, mean to spend much of his wealth befor he dies on the poor. Johns Hopkins University, at Eal timore, conferred 011 Sir Williar Henw Perk in. the ereat scientist, til degree of'doctor of laws. . > r, n; :-- .$$$% ..v'- ;><*-'!^-? ;rvv i-" J v*> fionalr n , TRUSTS Ai RAILROADS, \ - A. *: m #* I. A? Financiers strive 10 unecu ?n. tagonism Shown in Election. COST OF LIViNG IS HIGHER Standard Oil, Copper and Steel Corporations Decide to Let Men ] Prosper?Big Roads in Line? f Follow Lead of Pennsylvania. "VTrN-rrr . t)i?Q A^IAQIIV fll] J iicvr iuiiv vjitj. 1 the great railroad and industrial corporations of the country, the affairs i of which are directed from this city, i 1 1 ' have decided to increase the prevaill ing rate of wages to their employes. l It was predicted that the action of t the Pennsylvania Railroad manage\ ment in increasing the wages of its 1 , army of 165,000 men nearly $12,000,000 Would soon be followed by ' all the important railroad and indus" trial corporations of the United States. . The Standard Oil Company has decided to increase the wages of its t 60,000 employes in different parts of ] 5 the United States. The increases will ' 1 be carried out through the company's " subsiduary corporations. [ Information also reached the city 1 from Montana thpt the Amalgamated Copper Company, generally known as ' the Copper Trust, which employs 1 ; nearly 15,000 men in the mines of 5 Montana, has already made a pro- J. posal to its employes increasing their wages about ten per cent. The United States Steel Corporation, the world's largest trust, which 1 advanced the wages of its army of ; 175,000 employes in March, 1905, [ without solicitation from the men, ; is also considering the question of a Irage increase. ->r. The Philadelphia and Residing Company, the New York Central, the: ; Lackawanna and other Eastern roads ' r have either been requested to advance the wages of the employes or ' have taken some steps to do so. 3 One reason for the general tendency of trust managers to increase the wages of the workmen was " brought out by a trade agency, which I reported that the present cost of liv^ lng was the highest in twenty "years. I According to the last Dun's Index Number of Commodity Prices Pro-. I portioned to Consumption, the aver, age cost was $106,683 on November 11 last. Compared with a year ago | ? on the same date the present cost, as ' [ shown by the index number, is $3 higher. \ % Men of prominence in the financial I world saw in the concerted action of ' the great corporations a desire to checkmate the growing tide of an _ tagonlsm to corporations such as wa3 ' brought out in the recent, election. The discontent among the laboring element, the higher cost of -living, the lower purchasing power of the dollar unit and the effect of the disclosures of corporate abuses, it is 1 generally admitted here, forced the corporations to adopt a more liberal policy to the workingmen and there[ by conciliate the active antagonism j which was reflected in the election. 5 It became known that the Standard Oil Company had decided before the election to increase wages. The first , public announcement was made when [ it was said that the Galena Oil Coml pany, a subsidiary concern, manufacl turing lubricating oils, had increased -A the wages of its men. Practically all I the subsidiary companies will make . i similar announcements to 60,000 men within the next few weeks. The - increase will affect more pareicularly r the men who receive less than $125 l- a month. i The action of the Copper Trust in j Montana in offering to increase the i v^ges of its men ten per cent, will be no surprise to those familiar with . the conditions of the labor market in the great Butte copper camp. i TheYe has been a scarcity of miners - for several months, and the produc- 1 > tion of copper, despite the great de, mand, has not increased more than - five to ten per cent, as compared _ with the production last year. The Increase in consumption, it is estimated, has been at least thirty per cent. Many estimate the increase in . consumption to be about forty per cent. ; Railroads which are expected to make compromises are the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Rock -1 -S s /it r i? j ci n?.? * isiaua ana 01. i^ouih a.iiu ouu rrau1 cisco system, and the Northwestern. On other railroads terminating in 1 Chicago it is expected that instead > of general advances in wages special E departments of labor will be adf vanced to meet the wages of other 3 branches. r TERRORISTS SOOpP IN $300,000. i Wreck Train With Bomb, Then Loot ? the Mail Van. Warsaw, Poland.?Upon the arrival of a train over the Vienna-Warsaw Railroad at Itogow station a band of Terrorists surrounded the station and threw a bomb at the mail van. The train was derailed and i several soldiers escorting the van were killed or wounded. The Ter , rorists then robbed the mail, and it * is rumored that they made good their i escape with a very large sum of > money, estimated as high as $500, 000. r Greeks Commit Massacre. A Greek band at Salonica massacred twenty-five Bulgarians. Rich Young Thaw a Drunkard. Relatives of William Thaw, nephew and companion of Harry K. Thaw, j have asked the courts in Pittsburg, t Pa., to declare him an habitual drunkard,- and put his estate in charge of a trustee. Mutual Barred From Kentucky. The Tnunranpp Pnmmiuoinnor nf a Kentucky has revoked the license of 1 the Mutual Life Insurance Company, : t and the corporation obtained an in- . ? junction, but too late. Silver on a Boom. s The Director of the Mint predicted 2 that silver will go to seventy-six in two years and stay there, causing a great boom in the West. The price has advanced from sixty-six to seventy-one since the Government resumed buying in August. s 0 McGill Out on Bail. Charfes McGill, manager of the - broken Ontario Bank, of Toronto, a Canada, has been released on $100,e 000 Ijail pending trial for embezzlement. '" " ' v; -.- 'm- -.v-.: EXPECT BISJOR* CROP Bureau of Statistics Makes an Optimistic Estimate. Buckwheat Not So Favorable?Potatoes WUl Give a Big Yield? A Big Tobacco Crop. Washington, D. C.?The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture, finds from the reports of the c?rrespondentJi and agents of the bureau as follows: The preliminary returns on the production of corn in 1$06 indicate a total yield of about 2,881,096,000 bushels, or an average of 30.2 bushels per acre, . as compared with an average yield of 28.8 bushels as finally estimated in 1905, 26.8 bushels in 1904, and a ten-year average of 25.2 bushels. The following table shows for the twenty-five principal corn States the preliminary estimates of average yield per acre for November, 1906: States. r Av'ge. I Illinois 36.1 Iowa 39.5 Nebraska ... 34.1 j Kansas ; ... .28.9 Texas ..22.5 Missouri 32.3 rndlana 39.6 Georgia , ....? . 12.0 Kentucky.... 33.0 Tennessee .. 28.1 Ohio 42.6 Alabama 16.0 Mnrth P!nrnUn? 15.3 Arkansas .23.6 Mississippi 18.5 Indian Territory .33.6 Oklahoma 32.9 South Carolina 1-2.2 Virginia .24.3 South Dakota 33.5 Minnesota.... .. J, 33.6 Wisconsin 41.2 Pennsylvania f 40.2 Louisiana 17.2 Michigan ... % . .37.0 United States <50.2 The general average as to quality is 89.9 per cent., as compared with 90.6 last year, 86.2 in 1904 and 83.1 in 1903. It is estimated that about 4.4 per cent, of the corn crop of 1905 was still in the hands of farmers on November 1, 1906, as compared with 3.3 per cent, of the crop of '1904 in farmers' hands on November ;t, 1905, 3.6 per cent., of the crop of 1903 in farmers' hand on November 1, 4, and 5.2 per cent, of the crop ot xJ02 in farmers' hands on November 1, 1903. . The preliminary estimate of thfe. ayerage yield per acre of buckwheat is 18.7 bushels, against an average yield of 19.2 bushels as finally estimated in 1905, 18.9 bushels in 1904, and a ten-year average of 1811 bushels. The average for quality is 90.4 per cent., against 93.0. last year, 91.5 In 1904 and 91.4 m iyua. The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of potatoes isr 102.5 bushels, against an average yield of 87..0 bushels as finally estimated In 1905, 110.4 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 84.4. The av< erage as to quality is 90.0 per cent., as compared with -85.4 per cent, one year ago, 93.4 in 1904 and 86.4 in 1903. . The preliminary estimate of the average yield per iacre oMiay is 1.35 tons, as against an average yield of l.v54itons ios finally estimated in.190^,; 1.-52 tons in 1904,' and a ten-year average of 1.44. The average as to quality is 89.9 per cent., against 89.9 one year ago, 92.7 ih 190^ and 91.3in 1903. '. The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of tobacco is 854.3 pounds, as compared with the final estimate of 815.6 pounds In 1905, 819 pounds in 1904 and an eight-year average of 763.6 pounds. The average as to quality is 84.5 per cent., as compared with 87.3 per cent. one year ago and JT9.5 per cent, in 1904. GREAT HOTEL COLLAPSED. 4* , ? 100 Workmen Buried in Ruins of the ' Bixby at Long Beach, Cal. Long Beach, Cal.?Five stories of the central wing of the new $750,000 Bixby Hotel collapsed, carrying nine workmen to death in the ton3 of tangled wreckage. About 150 artisans and laborers were scattered through the structure at the moment it fell, and of these 100 were carried down in the ruins, nine being severely hurt. Thirteen men on the contractors' rolls are unaccounted for. Many tons of iron and concrete j went down in the great crash, and the exceptional weight of the building material made the rescue work doubly difficult. Cries' for help from men pinned under giant girders were - ?' r1n,.<rh. ecnoea Dy wans ui wives UUU uaujjii- I ters swarming over the ruins in ! search of their own. The dead are: R. M. Perkins, Carlton Brashear, A. | Bensenso. Albert Hartle, L. M. Phil- j lips and four unidentified workmen. I The Bixby was to have cost $750,000. It was to have 276 rooms. Standing 200 feet from the shore, it covered an area 348 by 175 feet. | President Denounced. The Union Republican Club, at Cincinnati, has denounced the action of the President in discharging from the army three companies of negroes. King Edward's Birthday. King Edward celebrated his sUtyflfth birthday quietly at Sandringhaw Palace, London. Banker Convict Pardoned. Governor McLane, of New Hampshire, has pardoned John P. Coggin, sent to jail for four years for misappropriation of funds of the Nashua Trust Company. Russian Committees Suppressed. The electoral committees in Odessa and the provinces of Russia have been suoDressed .and their functions have been transferred to the town councils. Bonaparte Advocates Bosses. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte advocated the annual election of a "legalized boss" by oach party to choose candidates for office. Reciprocity With Canada. J. J. Hill, in a speech in Chicago, sai 1 that he favored either free trade foj Canada or reciprocity ueuveeu this two countries. Marylamler Admits Bribery. Representative-Elect Jacltson, ot >T:i.yland, admitted that he paid n.'>::ey for the purchase of votes iu the recent election. - -.y&rm " - .C 1PERU-NA[jl for: catarrh I jOFTHE ^rnmmm \j iuncs stohagh. i ^dheysbladder The Marriage Service "Obey." Much excitement haa.?een caused among the circles of those about to marry by a Blackpool clergyman omitting the word "obey" during the marriage serVifte he Wast* celebrating recently.' The clergyman gave, as an explanation that when women repeat the vow after him^they alwayp*?lar over the obey. Nowaday^ women obey their Hnsftaricte^BO tittle 'that perhaps it is just as well lff.lt Is left out. Happy those husbands who expect little?they will not be disappointed.?Le Figaro. ?.?: ,? She that loves not'a little child?what can one say of her? A- : 1 - V- > AWFUL PSORIASIS 35*?ABS. ^ ? Terrible Scaly Humor In Patches AH Orer Body?Skin Cracked ud Bleeding?Cured by Cuticura. "I was afflicted with psoriasis for thirtyfire years, it was in patches all pvyr ray body. X used three cakes of Osteon. Soap, six boxes of Ointment and two bottles of Resolvent. In thirty days I was completely cured, and i't.hiok permanently, as it was about five years ago. The psoriasis first made*- it* appearance in red spots, gecerally form mg a circle, leaving in the centre a spot acout the size of a silver dollar of sound flesh. 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