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OAMDKN, S. O. K1UDAY. NOVUM UKK 27. liHKj. WIIITO HAPPENINGS TOLO IN BRIEFS WMttllBSJIi acc# g f Interest Gleaned Prom All Sectiou* of (Ke By?y Rockefeller Tries to Unload D I _ ?*?' r*Jmrtto State ' Responsibility For Big Trust Court Martial at Spartanburg. Spartanburg Special, Private C. 7* Ql,i,,n- Holt ttIl4 W. A. 0 ' uu'nber? of Company I, 1st o ^ment, South ?arolinu Notional U8r< ' P^'dcd guilty before u court martial here last week. Mac Quint) ant Letter Holt pleading guilty to tbo chaitfe of di?eriiou and W. A. lolt to tho cbarga of disobeying or ders. Privates W. S. Honors, James Wilds and . Clarence Cobb, who were court mart iu led on tho charge ot' de sertion, pleaded not guilty and were tried, the ease taking up tho entire day. H, I,, Uomar appeared for the defendants. Tho officers of the court were Copt. P. K. MeCulley, Copt. P. p. Hundley, Cspt, K. 1. Watson and Capt. J. Frost Walker, Judge Advo-, cate. The trial attracted great inter -j est, the chamber of commerce rooms whero the court was held being crowd ed with military men and private citizens. It was the first military ? trial ever held in Spartanburg und -the first of the kind ever held in the State. The Court martial was ordered bv Col. Lewis, commander of the 1st South Carolina regiment, and WUB thi1 rr;mlT of the ~ above- "named" privates refusing to respond when Company J was called out to protect the jail on October 10, when a mob attempted to storm the jail and lynch John Irby, colored, charged with at tempting to rap? Miss Leila De*np sey. Irby has since been convicted and sentenced to serve thirty years in the penitentiary. When the court convened the privates, under charges, all of whom were in uniform, to gether with the witnesses" were brought into eourt. Privates Lester Ilolt and C. Mac Quinn pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion, and W. A. Holt entered a plea of guilty to the .charge of disobedience. Quinn in guilty broke down and cried. He Mid that it was his intention fo respond, and that he went to the armory- for his uniform and arms, but found the armory locked. Privates Cobh, Wilds and Hogers in "'their defense claimed that they were of the opinion that their term of en fei-JiWrnent expired Octobcr 1, and that | they had jurned in their uniforms and equipment and were not t Iktc ^ fore subject to call to arms. The po rtion of the cdmpany was that since i# they had not received written dis ' charge front* the colonel of the regi **'" mcnt ? ther were -subject to duty at fl: any time. The court adjourned and # the papers and findings of the court fpirtil be forwarded to Col. Lewis, com wander- of the 1st regiment. It will fiW ten days before Col. Lewis will ?| make a report on the case. BjjTTj ; 1 ^ Monarch Mill Meeting Held. *;" Union,- Special. ? The stockholders v' of the Monarch Cotton Mills met here M. Milliken and his party of notheni capitalists being present. IT. fe; >A. Hatch, of New York city, son-in law of Mr. Milliken, was chosen pres ident, in succession to P. E. Fant, ^deceased, and Mr. Nicholson, of this K dty, was reelected treasurer and gen ; : jpral manager. A seini-nnnunl divi ' -dend of 3 per cent wax ordered paid on January 1. Geologists Gathoring Data. C Blacksburg, Special,? Mr. A. L. ?| Steritt, of the survey, is here with Prof. Sloan, gathering data . of ?this quadrangle to till in the map of this section being made by the geological survey. The topographi cal men were here in 1900 and they jf have the map all ready now except ing the geological data. When that pig worked up the map will bo com plete. Heavy Sentence Given. Spartanburg, Special. ? The heav " iest sentence ever imj>osed in this oounty f?r conviction on the charge of selling liquor was that imposed by Judgo Klough on Col. Aaron Thompson of this ennntv. whn convicted on three accounts. He was given a fine of $1^)00 or eighteen months in the penitentiary or at hard labor on the public works of the county. The case will be appealed. lHotion was made for a new trial but was refused by the court. HVvt-'"* ? ~ 1 Milliner Violates Game Law. Spartanburg, Speeinl.? J. M. Good ly ^priwtor- of a fashionable mil liner* store, recently arrested on _tba chargc of violating the game laws the State by displaying-* -feat F.imed with the plume of an egret non-game bird, in his atom? win , appeared before Magistrate n and pleaded guilty.- He was iced to pay a fine of $2. The Mr.^GooJl.t wu brought Report on Insurance. Columbia, Special. In bin forth' coming first annual report to the Leg islature Mr. McMaster, the new State Insurance Commissioner, will haw some interesting and encouraging re marks to make concerning domestic mutuul insurance doing u (ire busi ness, showing (be remarkable Having to policy-holders on both city and' country property these concerns char tered under the "mutual protective association Oct" have made over "old line" insurance. They "tell a story of honesty and t'ratenity tha*. entirely over shadows the failures of the few which have uMempted to cover the whole State." Mr. Mc Master mentions one Charleston com pany, the Carolina Mutuul, which is f)7 years old, has $130,000 in cash and investments. It weathered the great Charleston fire of 1801, through the loyalty of its members meeting all its heavy losses then, which have been fully saved back to them in re duced insurance since. He also men tions favorably the Hiberniun Mu tual, the Germania Mutual and the Merchants' Mutual, all Charleston Companies con IT nl n g Them s ft 1 ve s To" Charleston City property. These Charleston companies, the report says, "have been the means of sav ing, I believe without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of dollars to the citizens Af Charleston." Mr. McMaster's comments are most en couraging to the movement that has started in the South to do the South 'r insurance business at home at less cost to policy-holders and keeping all the money at home. Uorn Contest Not Decided. Gaffney, Special.? A large number of farmers came to Gaffney on the date fixed for deciding the corn con test which has excited so much in terest among the farmers of Cherokee county this season. A number of them was disappointed, however, as the committees were not ready to re port as to the "yield for the reason that some of the contestants have not finished gathering their product. The farmers were met by Mr. C. L. Good rich, from the office of farm manage ment of Washington, I). C. ; Mr. C. P. Hartley, of Washington, who is' in charge of corn investigation from the bureau of plant industry, and Mr. Ira Williams, also of the bureau of plant industry. These gentlemen spoke entertainingly ami instructively along Their particular lines, and after the speaking Mr. Goodrich awarded the prize of $5 to Mr. T. C. Petty for the best display of seed corn. 1 The prize offered by the Merchants and Planters' Bank for the largest yield will be awarded later after the various committees on measurements, etc., have reported. Mill Meeting Held. Spartanburg, Specipl. ? The nnnunl meeting of the Spartan Mills, Lock hart Mills and the Gainesville Cotton Mills wore held last week. The old hoard of directors and officers of all three of the mills were re-elected and the usual dividends declared. The meetings were attended by S. M. Milliken and party of New York mil lionaires, who are making their an nual trip of inspection to the mills in this section, in which they are in terested. Fire in Bamberg Cotton Oil Mill. Columbia, Special. ? Fire destroy ed the gin bouse and crusing mill of the Bamberg Cotton Oil Mill, causing a loss of approximately $7(5.000, par tially covered by insurance. Tho buildings and machinery of the mill are valued at $.'1(5,000 and the raw material destroyed at about $40, 000. The insurance as jftated by Mr. W. B. Brabham, manager of the mill, is about $35,000. Explosion at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special. ? The mangle in tho Bock Hill Steam Laundry explod ed, wrecking the rest <j f the machin ery, blew a hole eight feet square in the side of the brick building, forcod out nil the doors and shattered the glass in the windows. No one was in the building except Mr. Farthing, the manager. He was badly stunned, but not otherwise hurt. The damage to I the machinery is estimated at about fifteen hundred dollars, but that to tho building was ' not estimated. * An Unusual rind in Branchvillo. Hranchvillef Special. ? Whilo dig ging a well on the place of Mrs. Mr iB. Murray in Branchville a few days ago, soma rare geological specimens were discovered. The well had been dug' about 15 or 20 feet whn a sub stance wad found that was in strik ing contrast to the remaining soil. On examination it was found to be n bed of phosphate ? rock, intermixed with shark's 'teeth, fossils and bones of prehistoric animals.* ? . > ? . ? - PUTS THE BLAME UP TO OTHERS President of tho Standard Oil Trust Continues to Unravel That Corpo ration's History- Crodit For Its Existence Should Qo to 11. M. Flag ler and S, C. T. Dodd Says the Company Has Not Been a Trust Since 1892, When it Was Dissolved by Order of Court, Since Which Time ? the , Suboidiary Companies Have Been Entirely Independent. Now York, Specie]. ? Credit for t creation of the Stanard Oil trust, which counsel for the Federal govern ment claim still exist* uk the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, was given by Jolin I). Rockefeller as a witness Tuesday under cross-exami nation in the Federal suit to dis solve the Standard, to two men?' Henry M. Flagler and Samuel C. T. Dodd. To these two niaxt?r archi tects of the oil combine, Mr. Rocke feller gave full credit, Buying that he did not possess tho ability for so pro gressive a move. Mr. Rockefeller spent an arduous doy an the stand under the iucessant questioning of Frank B. Kellogg, the government counsel, and when ad journment was taken until Tuesday he gave every evid*n?r of delight that tl?e day wax done. Counsel hope to conclude Mr. Rockefeller's cross examination Tuesday, when it is ex pected to place John J). Archbold, vice president of the Standard on the stand. _ i Frank B. Kellogg, who with other government investigators, has been endeavoring for over a year to obtain the missing stock transfer books of tho Standard Oil trust, sought thro' Mr. Rockefeller to Hud the missinu: trail to these books and Mr. Rocke feller promised to do what he eould to find them. Mr. Rockefeller 's ex amination carried him through tfie period of the Standard Oil trust and the years of its subsequent liquida tion, which lasted from 1892 to 1809. Mr. Rockefeller's memory at times was not clear on tho definite details of this trust liquidation period and he told counsel that ho could not recall many of the incidents and develop ments of that time. .During the day Mr. Kellogg developed from Mr. Rockefeller that early in the indus trial existenco of the Standard tho presidents of two railroad companies, together with several railroad direc tors, were, stockholders in the oil com bination. r After adjournment Mr. Rockefeller told an inquiring audience of report? ors that there were better things in the world than making money, and since TROT he had been jfraduallv re tiring from business. He added: "There is more important work than making money, and there is much' f(*- me to do. I belong to the Brotherhood of Man." At the opening of the hearing Mr. Rockefeller said that he thought there was an increase in the stock of the Standard Oil Companv of Ohio from $2,500,000 to $3,500,000 in 1375. "How many railroad men did you take into the Standard after 1870?" asked Mr. Kcllog. "I could not say," was Mr. Rocke feller's response. "Was W. II. Vanderbilt a stock holder!" "I can't say definitely. He mi?ht have been a stockholder for a trifling amount. " "Did you not sijro a paper on March 10th, 1875, requesting an in crease of capital stock as follows: ' W. II. Vandorbilt by J. D. Rocke feller. his attornoyt' " "That may ho; the paper would bo the best evidenco, " Mr. Kellogg brought out the fact that Amasa Stouo, then president of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad; Stillmftn Witt, a director of the Lake Shoro and Big Four roads, and J. P. Ilendy, also a director of the Big Four, were taken into the Standard Oil Company in the early days. "Who got up this Standard Oil t rqst ? " "I should say thnt II. M. Flagler and S. C. T. Dodd should have the credit. I am sure it was not I. I nm not so learned in legal matters , as that. I do not claim any credit, for Mr. Flpgler -and Mr. Dodd should have full credit. Mr. Rockefeller snid thnt the van- | ous eompeniea in the Standard Oil trust agreement which was made in 1RT9 trnrn m n r? o rrnA r. a ? ono fo * a ? ? -? " ?>cr?* ,rt,c a,,u independent corporations. Mr. Rocke feller said that the total value of the thirty-nine corporations included in the trust was apporAnately $170,000, 000, and that each oWhc stockholders named in the trutft agreement receiv ed certificates for the amount of stock of subsidiary companis which ho own ed. Ijrnched For Assault. Charleston, S. C., Special. ? Jim Gilmoro, a young nepro about 20 year* old, wm taken from the guard houae in Luray, -a small town in Hampton county, this State, after midnight and lynched by n party of ?nragod.^titen?. Oilmoro had at-: tempted to criminally assault one of the daughter* of his employer, tyr. A. C. Fitts, a highly 'tospeeted far mer, while the young lady and her grater were asleep Saturday night Hie . . ? s KfcPUBUCAN CON J Mb U I iONS TO NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FUND J. Pierpont Morula Era Second Placc -- Andrew Camcglo ain*J WhitcUw Roid, Hoviever, Also in $26,000 Clara- President $1,000. New York dikp.iivh, 2u.t. When the report of iioorge S. Shel don, Republican national t reaxurer, is filed with (he Rlale Auditor of New Ycjk at Albany ii will be found it is hujii that the Ifcpuhlicnu pajgn which ?riecled William ii. Tail was conducted with a fuinl of ahjut $1,700,000, Charles P Taft w?s the heaviest cofilrilmtoi; having added *100,500 to the fuhd. The following istho list of leading contributory who gave over .*250; Charles I'. Taft.-. . . . ..<$100,000 J. Piorpont Morgan 25,000 Andrew Carnegie 25,000 William Nelson Cromwell... 25,000 Whitelaw Hcid 25.000 I). O. Mills .... .. ...... A, 000 Adolphus Ruscb.. ,, ., .. 5,000 it. C. Kerens. 5.OO0 W, C. Dickey 5,000 William Barrett Ridgely .. 1,200 President Roosevelt. . ..... 1,000 Frank B. Kellogg 1.000 C. A. Sevoranoo. .' 1,000 R. N. Saunders 1,000 Thomas F. Cole. 1,000 Kdward R. StoUinius. . .. ,. 1,000 Marvin Hughjtt 1,000 N. W. Harris., 1,000 II. K. Conehrau 1,000 Charles It. Crano. . 1,000 Samuel- In wnfl-r ; 7 : ~r. 1,000 j John C. Wharton., .. .. 1,000 ! Charles Pago Bryan 1,000 W. II. Barllett 1,000 .James A.__P.itten 1,000 Robert T. Lineou 1.000 E. P. Frarior 1,000 Jolin G. Shedd 1,000 Joy Morton . 1.000 E. A. W. Kieckhcifer 1,000 Gove Lcgb lhan $1,000. ?Willimn Kent S00 F. H. Smith S00 A. S. Littlelleid. 025 John Milton Oliver 500 Wo Iter ^Burroughs. . . . r-\ . . . 500 Clnyton M Hrk 50!) C. A . Smith W. K. Bixby 500 0. ? B. Gorin 500 A. W. Goodrich..*.. 500 W. II. Evans 500 C. B. Borland.. .. f.t ?; ; C. S. Jobes .... 50U F. E. Grimes 500 F. H. Smith 500 T. I). Jones 501) B. E. Sunny 500 John A. Spoor. . 500 Samuel Cupplea 500 R. S. Brookings 500 Julius Rosrnwjild 500 A. A. McKay 500 John S. Bunnell* 500 W. F. Comstock. 500 William McLaughlin 500 J. A. Holmes 500 Spencer Otis 500 K. B. Price 500 William T. Joyce 500 And These Gave S500. J. C. Shaffer 500 George F. Grillin 500 D. A. Ce.mpbell .. 500 E. F. Swinney 500 D. M. Houser 500 Edward B. Butler 500 II. W. Coo 500 J. II. EtoiiR-ht 500 Stewart Spalding 500 E. J. Buffi net on 500 A. II. Mulliken 500 David B. Jones.. 500 R. W. Senra 500 Mark S. Willing 400 John Dupree 400 F. J. Dewea 400 J. C. Amen 300 Warren Nirhols ,, 300 Harry H.nrt 300 J. F. Downing 300 E. E. Morgan 300 Charles Pie* 300 T. R. Lyon 300 II. P. Knnpp 300 E. V. Price 300 Franeis Beidler 300 Calvin Durand 300 E. J. I.ehrnann 300 Alexnnder Robertson 300 Ar.d Thcso Oavo $250. The following gave $250 each: Charles J. Singer, K. Ortman, R. A. Keyes, John P. Wilson, Levy Mayer, George J. Cooke, (J. M. Reynolds, C. L. Willev. A. C. Bartlett, J. D. Has eom, H. Woodland, F. S. Winston, Henry G. Hart. W. II. Whiteside, J. B. Tarbell, H. M. VJylfesby, R. L. W. Bowers, Wiiliam Butterworth, W. V. Kelloy, P. J. Bennett, M. J. Spiegal, A. B. Conover, M. A. Ryerw>n,-D; H. Burnhnm, C. II. ILirlburd, Matz Boy den Fisher, E. L. Rvcrson, Eugene S. Pilfe, D. N. Barker, Graham H. Hnr-"| iii', J. S. Field, D. M. Cutjuiiiiigb, Jo seph B. Field. F. II. Rawson, O. W. Norton, A. M. Barnhart, W. Stone, Kenneth Clark, T. A. Schulze, John 1. H. Field, C. IC. Sharood, John R. Mitchell, Gcbhard Bohn, A. II. Lin dkr, C. W. Gordon* E. H. Bailey, F, B. Wells, F. C. Vann I)usen, W. Dcering, Byron L. Smith and H. H. ; Porter. Governor of Florida Will Open Cot ton Convention. .J Lake City, JTln., Special. ? The com mit too on arrangements for the cot ton convention hare November 25th, received a message from Governor Brotvard that he would be onJiand to open the convention. Senators Talia^ ferro and Fletcher, together with many merchants and bankers oj prominence will be present and er? ery phase of the cotton business will be discussed. |^V fjfc TIMCCO GROWERS " i WHIP THE TRUST American Company Finally Agrees to Pay Price Dsmamicd. TOTAL MAY REACH $14,000,000' Deal Closed Mean* ( lio Krul of j Night Itidcr Oufrnnt's in Stntc Of | Kent in ky ? Nearly fa), 000,000 I'ouikU Held in llio Hurley l'o?d. I.oulavillo, Ky.? Tho TobaeeoTrutt hn* boon whipped to a finish arid made to bow down to the Burloy T<>- 1 bncoo Society.. Some of tho members ] of that organization unofficially; formed tho bands of marauders known a<j night rUlere, who resorted to arson and mvirdor to attain tholr ends. Tly a doni between thn Hurley To hacco Society and tho American To bacco Company, cloned lately, tho 190G and part of the 190-7 crop of to- | bacco, Involving 80.o00.000 pound?, i becomes the oroporty of the Amerl- | can Tobacco Company at a cost of al? j most JM, 000.000. Tho average price I nor pound for the 190 6 crop was twonty and a half cents and *pv?ai teen eonta for the 190.7 crop. Thoro In great rejoicing tp Kentucky among tho night riders and those who syiu pathlzo with them. It 1k considered a duclslvo victory for tho night rid ers and will end tho marauding In Kentucky. Tho Cm- Icy Tobacco Society Is an ornanlzatiuu that ? c.ompriaait about fifty- five counties In the northern nnd central portions of Kentucky, and has In Its membership all tobacco raisers. Those growers poolrd ?u of their crops of 1900 ami 19^7 nnd the or ganization -whs controlled exactfy tike any corporation nr trout would bo. that 1p, bv officers nnd on executive board. To!?arco ralping In thn Bur ley district Ik vr*ry arduous work, and eeinloyp the time of the former prac tically the year round. It 1b esti mated that It requires at least a price of eight cents a pound for a farmer to realize any profit, on raising Burley tol'ilCCO. The tobacco growers, knowing that tho trust was realizing at least from fnrf v oenf a n ?I f r\** Hi n D urlnv in. bacco nfter It wap manufpetnrod for consumnt ion. decided, as a last resort, to orgnrlze ee:nlnst trust prices. This thr>y did. with tho result that by this rVoal they received au average of near ly nineteen cpnts a pound for their tohnceo. thus attesting that thoy have Kalnrxl <t'eolr noint. This was done by curtailing the Production and not raising a crop this year. 1 TOM T,. JOHNSON POOR. Cleveland's Mayor Says Fine Ilomo and Antos Must Go. Cleveland, Ohio. ? Mayor Tom T<. Johnson. who for ver.ra has be?n cred ited with posst-sRlng u largo fortuno, announced that ho had lost every thing and would ho com polled to give up his handsome home in Euclid ave nue and movo Into smnllor and legs expensive quarters. The Mavor also stated that, ho would give up his auto mobiles and other luxuries, because ho could no longer afford to keep them. His fortune was wrecked, tho May or declared, by his devotion to tho af fairs of tho estato of his dead brother Albert, who was heavily interested in traction properties in the East. Aft??r Albert's death it was suggested to Mayor Johnson that he resign as Mayor and tak*? up the management of Albert's estate. It is said Mr. Johnson has recently lost anproxlinatoly $400,000 in con nection with his interests at Lorain, Ohio. DR. ROYCE ON FOOTRALTj. "Result Unfavorable to Rest Moral Education of Youth," He Says. Boston, Mass. ? Tho declaration that "the prevalent result of football is not favorable to the best moral education of tho great body of our youth," is made by Professor Josiah Royce, of the department of philoso phy at Harvard, in a long articlo in the football number of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine, In his article Professor Rovce says further: "It does not train loyalty to see another man's bones broken. Among the spectators it makes a loyal life and practical love of loyalty Impossi ble as far as the conduct and spirit and results of theso public displays are concerned. " LANDSLIDE FOLLOWS FATAL GAS EXPLOSION Half a Block Slips Into 48-Fotft Trench fn Brooklyn. LABORERS PERISH IN FLOOD I'.urMiug Wafer Main Inundates Ii'x eavntion ? Men. Women mill Cbil tiren (Jo Down I'mli'i; Water and , Knrlli It) Gold Street SiMV0|'? * i. bnaoklyn. "tt. Y. ? Twenty-two, l.lvtfa aro hulleved to Iij.mi saorlfieod In an unusual aecid< nt. in ? sower trench iu Gold street., this* borough. Half of tho block in Gold street. be tweoo York and Front streets fell into a forty-eight-foot trench after a KaB explosion that wrecked a twenty four-lneh main and loosed thousands of gallons of water. Men. women and children walking on the sidewalk wild into the excavation and were drowned or were burned bv a gaH (lnmo that roso eighty feet above the pavement and burned for twenty mlnutOH be fore the Brooklyn Union Gas Com pany shut it off Kxnct know led k#> as to (he number I hat perished will not be had until the ldg trench Is pumped clear of wat er. The accident Ih one of the most unusual in the clty'p history. The street Ih In such a condition that Dep uty Chief l.ally. of the Fire Depart ment, retimed to permit his men to work at night In the trench, and Is sued an order that no attempt at re envery- rvf bodtw br? madt* until ? 7~ o'clock next morning. If thorn are twenty-one burled in the mass of sand, timber and water, there is not a chance for getting any out alive. One body is out of the trench. More than half the block hap gone down from building line to budding line, and the foundations of the old fashioned frame houses that lino the block are washed by water. Among the dead is Frederick Scheffmelor. of the Brooklyn Sewer Bureau, who went. Into the trench in Inspect tho work on the thirteen-foot sewer at 9 o'clock a. m. Hcheffmclor was overwhelmed by tho flood of water released from the? .burst, main. Four caroenterB employed by Hag ,- n n *Ua rvL ivi'ftcio, u? i?i 'in invLi iu' , 1110 contractors, were swept through tho finished section of the sewer to the bulkhead at tho end of Gold street and climbed out almost droWned. They collapsed on reaching the sur face, and were cared for by 'one of tho six ambulanco Burgeons who re sponded to calls. Tho known dead are: Samuel Ahratnn. fifty-four years old: body recovered. Gustavo Anderson, foroman ear pontes. Francis Armando, laborer, Brook lyn. ^ .Jacques Armando, brother of Fran cis, also a laborer, 't Emil Rachman. carpenter. John Brady, six yetara old, Vincent Doherly, sevftu years old. Charles Farroll, foreman laborer. Felix Green, carpenter, Manhattan, Oustavc Lauo, carpenter, Manhat tan. Charles Nelson, enroenter. Frederick Scheffmeier, city sewer Inspector, Brooklyn. Gustave Wallo, carpenter. The unknown dead are: Two Italian laborers. A woman. Tho Injured are: Domlnick Labonio, laborer; scaln wound?. Arcble/^Junochlo. laborer; lacera tions of race and scalp. The cause of tho catastrophe prob ably will never bo absolutely known, thou eh the general belief Is that it was the result of the accumulation of Illuminating gas In tho sower trench and some of Its pockets. CLOSES "MOTHER'S ROOM.'* Tliotisnnds of Christian Scientist* Hnvo Ma<lo It n Shrine. Boston, Mrss.-? By order of the hoard of directors tho "mother's room" In tho original part of the great Christian Science tabernacle In the Back Bay haB been shut to the public, curious or devout, without a single explanation being given as to tho reason. Ever since tho original church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, wai dedicated, the "mother's room" has been one of which thousands of the devout made a shrine. At first It was open to the public at all times, then It was decided to open it only on three days a week. - BAD SHORTAGE OF XMAS TREES rarest Tires Did It, and Result Will Be a Rise In Price-Trees Ready For Cut ting That Represented a Market Value of 8100,000 Burned. New York City. ? With tho poach crop scaro forgotten months ago and tho oyster crop ecare only a clammy ghost, It eeemcd there would be rest from reports of shortagea. Dut a man' came to tho front with an an nounceruiyit which, In Its possibilities o! widespread gloom, made peach and oybtvt famines look joycus. If the situation Is afl bad as he said, Christ mas Day in hundreds of thousands of homes will seem as If there were a funeral, or the rent collector had come around again. Simply, there Is going to bo the worst shortage of Christmas trees this country has known. The man I who Mild It deals In those trees by wholesale. Ho asserted the rcccnt forest fires, that swept hundreds of acres in the northern section of Maine, killed off thousands bt young trees. Already dealers are in the north woods of Maine, having the trees cut and getting them ready for shipment. A large real estate dealer In Maine says the forest fires de stroyed Christmas trees ready for cutting that represented a market value of <100,000. All "famine" stories, whether ot shellfish, fruit or trees, wind up with a certain form of announcement. It comcs with the Christmas prediction. It Is: PRICR8 WILL BE HXOHSR. -? Two Maine Canoeists Drown. MIph Maud Bollff, twenty-two years old, of Monroe, a teacher in one of the public schools of Bradley, and Kdwln M. Gray; twenty-one, of Brad ley, were drowned in Qreat Works . stream about two milea frota Brad*] ley, Me. They were on their way in a canoe to a hunting camp. * * *' - I/ookont Inn Bum, .^sn^pus bid Lookout Inn, on the ! ereat o t Lookout Mountain, Tenn., was burned to the ground, together with all its contents. _ anBttsiPik a Chestnut Crop Good. Thn'chostnut crop in New Jersey it the best that the Stat? has enjoyed in I the last ten years. In aome plaeee [the ground la covered with nuta. I While the nuU are ?waller this year I than aro almost entlror free from worma. , . Ptnrhot In Taft'a Cabinet. At Washington, b. C,t tho post of. Secretary of Agriculture in President Taft'a Cabinet has been ottered to Olfford Pinchot, and it la almofct cer tain that Mr. Pinchot will accept ? - ? ? ? " Latest News BY WIRE. i IK * um+s I^'ft $18,000,000 K*la(e. Chloa.no, III. ? ~ Kdward, Ira ul Mrs. Borah Morris, oxftfiitori of tl* estate of the late Nelson Moi rie flt(| an Inventory in (hu I'.Jalo ('.on ~ The value of the estate wit? flxed at out I1S.UOO.UOO at. tlm tl*u* will was filed for probate. * '?> " Woman Dies at Church Fair, Cincinnati. ? Mrs. I). Lee, af Blxty years, of South Carthage, a a urb, was stricken with apoplexy wl In char#}"' of u booth at a fair (a sk. Peter's Episcopal Church, and died km th(.> booth before u physician rcactaaf her. Auto Driver Killed, Other# Hurt. Washington, I). Noblo DAVtil! chauffeur, wns killed nud several out ers were injured by the overturning of an uutomobiie near UyatUuim., Md. ' ? 3 - Plan Huge Auditorium. . " Washington, D. C. ? A n < at torium for the U8e of national com tiouH and for the holding of int?g?-4 ral balls and other large funetlonm fcs to be , constructed in WashlngtQMi K the plans of a committee of known men are carried out. (J landers Kills :? Physician. Chicago. ? Death from glei rare in a human being, overtook Thomas M. Wilson, of Atwood. Out rio, at tho Presbyterian Ilosnitnt. thin city. Dr. Wilson absorbed gorm of tho disease while nnnlui llwr experimonis at -Rush well College/ ? Frauds Mny Total (J2, 000, 000. Chicago.. ? Further doveloprat In tho real estate frauds of Peter Vs Vllssengon indicate that the amount obtained through his forger ies will total $2,000,000, Instead off $700,000. The Blatz estate may 1<M? $200,000. Van Vlliaongen was taken from tho county jail to Jollet to ot ter upon his sentence, fears being tertalned that he might attempt clde. Initiation Rrenks Leg. Lincoln, Nob. ? Governor-elect JL C. Shallenberger Is confined to tdp room at tho Lincoln Hotel with ft fractured leg. He was injured ?wfcBta being initiated a$ a member of tfe0 Shrlners. ? - f " " 'ry r.Tf^*\TtvTr* The Emmanuel Movement. New York City. ? The flrtt of m course of lectures on the principle*, methods and results of the Cronus uel Movement, which have been air ranged for in accordance with the HH quest of a number of clergymen 41 this city, was delivered at MendohH solin Hall by the Rev. E. Wood Wor cester, D, D. Fertilizer Merger. New York Clty^r--Representatl??? of many fertilizer companies, prtweA pally of the South, met here to per fect plans for the merger of the com panies into'a concern with $25.00?,r 000 preferred and $26,000,000 COIfe mon stock, * $a,000;000 A Month For CanflL^V Washington, D. C. ? Constructs work on the Papatnft '' costing the Q o vernment about 000,000 a month. BY CABLE. Kaiser Effacing Himself. Berlin. ? The Kaiser has apparent ly begun his self-offacement disci pline. He excused himself from kb customary attendance at the annual meeting of the Association of Marin* Architects, which he has invarlaWr attended and dominated, pleading eon tremely urgent business. - . I ???'? . Kuler of Trado Navy of 112 Shlpa* London. ? Sir John Blterman, con trolling owner of the rcilettnatr, and Hall lines and other steamship tonnage, has acquired control of tbe entire Bucknall fleet of twenty-elgtt vessels, giving n!*n 11$ steameat with a total of 430,000 tons. Penny Post Shows Quick Hor^lt. . ^ . London.-? The Pott m aster-O uuefpl announced that the weight of ?. wmri matter from the United Kingdom is the United States In the month of Oo tober Increased twenty-seven par cent, under the penny post, as eaaa pared with that In September. " Moro Revolt in Luzon. - Manila, P.. I. ?Several liundrdl warlike Moros havo gathered near Malabang. A column of five m paniea of infantry, with a couple sir guns, ha? been sent out to make a reconnoissnnce. It is hoped that after a parley the Moros . will ? disband peacefully. Queen Wilhelmlna Expectant. The Hague.? In .view of the fact that ah Interesting, event is expc next spring, Queen Wilhelmlna _ * been forbidden by hor physicians tm hold her customary private audience*. This precautionary r.-s^furo ir tss avoid fatigue. Servia Withdraws Guards. Belgrade. ? The Servian do ment has withdrawn its speetai tary guards on the Austro*Hu; frontier and discharged tha i. recently called to the 66Iora.' All Target Records T Manir^ FTr^ nounced that the bat during the progress bi by any nai . manshlp wi Wu