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.$8,500 YET
.THAT AMOUNT STANDS BETWEEN
OTTUMWA AND 8TOVE
FACTORY
rcl"i 4:
MEETING THIS EVENING
Ottumwa
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I net# Men Will Gather at
Room Where Stoves Are on Display
and DlacuM^Tonlght the Proapoets
For Cloalng the Negotiations—New
If !Subscriptions.
"aFiom Monday's Dally.
The store works proposition has
-.^passed the three-quarter pole, and is
vcomlng
down the home stretch at a
lively gait this afternoon. Up to this
r\tlma,
subscriptions to the stock of the
/stove company amount to $31,500 $2,
t- 800 in subscriptions having been tak
en today up to 8 o'clock. It is be
lieved that the subscriptions that will
be received this afternoon will reduce
the amount several thousand dollars
more and that the matter can be defl
nltely'closed and an Important new
/factory assured to Ottumwa within
the next few days. It goes without
paying, however, that It will take a
Jong pull, a strong pull and a pull al
together, to close.up the last quarter
pf the subscriptions, but Ottumwa has
never yet failed when she seriously un
dertook a proposition, and it is now
evident that Ottumwa is in dead earn
est with reference to securing the
stove works. "When a factory knocks
at a city's doors, as this one has done,
giving the promise and assurance that
it does. It is something that no pro
gressive city can turn a deaf ear
Itoward. If Ottumwa Is to grow, if
property is to Increase In value or ev
en hold its present value, and if the
retail interests of this city are to be
supported as they must be, then Ot
tumwa must have more factories anfl"
jmore men on the weekly pay-roll.Thls
festove proposition Is of the kind that
not a few men, but every property
owner and business man In Ottumwa
is vitally Interested In.
Meeting Tonight.
A meeting of citizens, Including
those who have subscribed to the
stock of the stove works, and every
one else who wants to see the city
I grow and prosper will be held this
evening at 223 East Main street,where
^the stoves are on exhibition. Hot cof
fee and biscuits will be served, and
there will be some talking by business
men along the line of Ottumwa's op
portun'ities and future prospects,^ and
what is necessary to make these pros
pects good.
Subscriptions to Stock.
The following Is a list of stock sub
scriptions signed up to the hour of go
ing to press. Nobody should hold
back because they can only make a
small subscription. Every hundred
dollars helps, not only in swelling the
total, but in increasing the general in
terest in the proposition.
Stove Company Subscribers.
Calvin Manning S
J. C. Jordan
Geo. Simmons
:J. T. Haclrworth ...«.
A. G. Harrow
A. B. Williams
E. A. Work
A,
W. Johnson
S. Flnesey
R. W. Harper
J. B. Mowrey
Mrs. Rosa Kraner
William Hogewoonlng
W. A. Mclntlre
JH. C. Davis
George McElroy
Xu H. Ellsworth
C. E. Boude
J. W. Neasham
W. H. Mynard
J. E. Hull
M. Hardsocg
Dr. W. C. Newell
V. L. Wilson
W. A. Starky
Grant Moffett £.
Total subscribed ..
Amount required...
Balp-*v«o Nsce3sary.
5.000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
J. B. Sax 1,000
Samuel Mahon
C. S. Harper
W. A. Work ...
Jos. Cain
Frank Mclntlre
Courier Printing Co
H. L. Waterman
Given Moore
Henry Phillips
W. J. Donelan
J. A. Phillips
Judge F. W. Elchelberger
Dr. J. C. Bonham
Globe Tea Co
Mrs. Ella J. Manchester
Drs. D. A. and W. B. LaForce..
Paul Arbenz
W. E. Cook
H. W. Merrill
p. W. Darner
Mrs.
1,000
1,000
1,500
1,000
1,000
GOO
500
500
500
500
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500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
300
300
300
.250
250
250
250
200
200
200
200
200
100
Ed Hogland 100
J. P.. Anderson
Kast End Supply Co
Frank Pierson ..
W. T. Archer
kF. W. Wilson
iMr. and Mrs. J. F. Jersey
/V". H. Keating
1C. O. Arnold
100
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100
100
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100
100
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BURTON IS
CONVICTED
KAN8A3 SENATOR WILL A8K FOR
NEW TRIAL ON GRAFT
CHARGE
St! Louis, Nov. 27.—At 12:30 o'clock
Sunday the jury in the Senator Bur
ton case returned a verdict of guilty
on all six counts in the indictment
Judge Van de Vanter today post
poned the passing of sentence upon
Senator Burton until Wednesday when
the defense will present its reasons
fpr asking for a new trial.
Jury Deliberates Two Hours.
The case was given to the jury at
10:35 Saturday night and a verdict
was returned In a trifle less than two
hours.
From the time the jury went out
Burton was pacing the court room,
and when it was announced that the
jury had agreed he took a seat at the
table with his counsel. His features
displayed emotion during the reading
of the verdict and polling of the jury.
At the conclusion Burton and his
counsel went to a hotel, the senator
being Released on his counsel's prom
ise to produce him In court this morn-
lnS-
May Get Two Years.
Senator Burton was indicted on
eight counts, tvo of which were
quashed before the case went to trial.
The penalty Is not moro than two
years' imprisonment nor more than
$10,000 fine on each count and the for
feiture forever of the right to hoi j. any
position of trust or profit under the
United States government.
Unless the verdict Is reversed In
the supreme cdurt Burton's sec.t in the
United States senate will at once be
come vacant. The term for which he
was elected expires. March 4, 1907.
COSTLY MARSHALLTOWN FIRE.
Residence of H. A. Church, Dr. C. C.
Cattle and E. L. Caffern Burn.
Marshalltown, Nov. 27.—(Special).—
The $15,000 residence of H. A. Church
and Dr. C. C. Cottle, occupied by the
two famlllles, and the home of Super
intendent E. Li. Coffeen of the public
schools, burned this morning. Electric
light wires or an open grate are
thought to have been responsible,
though it is not known which. The
insurance on each house was $6,000
and each family -had $1,000 ij
household goods.
MOB'S THREAT
NEGRO IS LYNCHED AT CHURCH
DOOR WHILE SERVICES
PROCEED
New Orleans, La., Nov. 27.—While a
hundred negroes of Tangipahoa parish
sang the old plantation songs in
church at Tangipahoa last night a
mob brought a negro, Munro Williams,
who confessed to assaulting Mrs. R.
George, an old white woman, to the
church and before the congregation
knew what was happening hung him
to a tree directly in front of the
church door.
They then fired several hundred
shots Into the body, tearing It to
pieces. The negroes In the church
were panic stricken and wept and
prayed for mercy. None left the
church until the mob had dispersed,
leaving the remains of the body hang
ing as a warning.
Williams was taken from the deputy
sheriff without resistance.
Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 27.—The
lists of dead and injured today in
dicate that nineteen persons lost
their lives in the rear-end colli
sion at Baker Bridge station on
the Boston & Maine railroad last
night Twenty-five persons were
more or less seriously injured and
others sustained cuts and bruises.
Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 27.— Nearly a
score of persons were killed outright,
burned to death or suffocated and thir
ty more seriously injured in a wreck
last night at Baker's Bridge station,
near here, on the Boston ft Maine
railroad. Many passengers sustained
minor cuts, bruises or burns.
The wreckage caught fire and some
of the passengers were incinerated.
Few persons live in the vicinity of
Baker's Bridge station and no fire de
partment was available, so that the
flames practically burned themselves
out. The uninjured passengers and a
number of train hands, assisted by vil
lagers. went to the aid of the injured
and many persons were rescued.
The regular Sunday night express
which left Boston at 7:45 o'clock for
Montreal via the Rutland system
crasued into the rear of a local train
wnic.. started from Boston at 7:15 for
points on the main line and the Marl
.boro branch.
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$31,500
5+0,009
.... $8,500
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Weather Obscures Signals..
The wreck was primarily due to
weather, which apparently ob
scured signals 3et by the forward
train, which the time of the disas
ter was standing in front of Baker's
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•VOLUME 5tf OTTTJMWA, WAPEliliO COUNTY, IOWA, TU E S A Y, 1STO YE MB 11 28, 1905
FARMS ARE
COLD MINES
SECRETARY WILSON 8AY8 AMER
ICAN AGRICULTURISTS ARE
ENJOYING PROSPERITY
STUPENDOUS FIGURES
Head of Agriculture Department
Makes Report on the Progreaa for
the Year Just Closed Denounces
'Gamblers in the Products of the
Farm.
Value of Farm Products In 1905.
Corn $1,216,000,000
Dairy .... 665,OOP,000
Hay 605,000,000
Cotton .... 575,000,000
Wheat .. 525,000,000
Miscellaneous ...... .. 2,586,000
Total .$6,415,000,000
Washington, D. C., Nov. 27.—In his
annual report to the President made
publio today, James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, declares that the farm
ers of the United States are passing
through the greatest period of pros
perity in the annals of the world's
history. The figures quoted by Sec
retary Wilson in support of this claim
are nothing short of stupendous and
reveal clearly the tremendous wealth
accumulated by the tillers of the
American soil.
"Production has been unequalled,"
says the secretary. "Its value has
reached the highest figure yet at
tained, the value of the farmers'
national surplus still maintains the
magnitude that has built up the bal
ance of trade by successive additions
for many years sufficient to change
the nation from a borrower Into a
lender there Is a continuation of the
unprecedented savings that have em
barrassed local banks with their riches
and have troubled farmers to find in
vestments, and as if all of these mani
festations of a high degree of well-be
ing were not enought, the farms them
selves have lncrgftpedvin- value to a
fabulous exten.tJJ.
.Record,.
1tigWrniB
reached Its highest production, over
2,700,000,000 bushels, of a total esti
mated value of $1,216,000,000. Hay
comes second, with a value of $605,
000,000. Cotton is expected to yield
$575,000,000. The short wheat crop
of last year is followed by one of
684,000,000 bushels, and its value, $525,
000,000, overtops the highest value
ever before reached. While only one
crop, corn, reached its highest produc
tion this year, four crops—corn, hay,
wheat and rice—reached their highest
value,
No crop but corn produces the In
come that the dairy cow does. The
estimate of the value of dairy, pro
ducts for 1905 reaches $665,000,000.
The farmer's hen competes for preced
ence with wheat, poultry products ag
gregating half a billion dollars in
value.
"And yet," says the secretary, "the
story is not done. The wealth pro
duction on farms in 1905 has reached
the highest amount ever attained by
the farmer of this or any other coun
try, "a stupendous aggregate of re
suits of brain and muscle and ma
chine," amounting In value to $6,415,
000,000, an excess over last year of
$256,000,000. The wealth produced on
farms in 1905 exceeds that of 1904 by
4 per cent, that of 1903 by 8 per cent
(Continued on Page 8.)
NINETEEN PEOPLE KILLED AND
MANY INJURED IN WRECK
Bridge station. The Montreal train,
drawn by two locomotives and consist
ing also of nine cars, crashed Into the
rear of the Marlboro branch lofcal, de
molishing the two reaj' cars.
Tried to Recover Time.
Last night's express consisted of two
locomitives, two milk cars, two bag
gage cars, mail car, three coaches and
a Pullman sleeper. The Montreal
train does not stop at the small sta
tions and after passing Waltham does
not stop ordinal lly until it reaches
Concord, two miles west of Baker's
Bridge station. Owing to the heavy lo
cal traffic the Marlboro branch train
was behind time when it reached
Baker's Bridge. According to the state
ment of persons who were at the de
pot there, a brakeman was sent to
place a fuse or red fire torch in posi
tion.
Danger Signal Not Seen.
The night was unusually dark, partly
owing to a dense mist which came up
the Sudbury river. According to those
at the station at the time the torch,
placed by the brakemen had not been
set more than a minute before the roar
ofa heavy train around a curve a short
distance east of the depot was heard.
Within a few seconds the headlight of
an on-rushing locomotive showed
through the mist and before a hand
could be lifted to warn the passengers
in the waiting train two ponderous en
gines, traveling at a speed of thirty-five
miles an hour, crashed Into it. The
impact was terrific and instantly there
was an Indescribable scene of death
and ruin.
NEW FACTORY
WE8TERN MACHINE COMPANY
.REMOVES HERE FROM
ALBIA
NAME IS TO BE CHANGED
Firm Will Be Called the Western Hay
Tool Company and Will Occupy the
Old Fali^Wllilams Plant at the Foot
of Vine Street—Change Made Be
cause of Recent Fire.
From Monday's Dally.
The Western Machine company for
three years operating as a partnership
at Albia, has taken a lease oh the
property familiarly known as the Fair
Williams plant and will become, tem
porarily at least, an Ottumwa concern.
The heavy contracts It has on Its
hands requiring prompt action to exe
cute the same has made it necessary
for the business to resume operation
without delays.
Western Hay Tool Co.
The business will be Incorporated
under the name of the Western Hay
Tool Co., the ofilcers and Incorpora
tors being composed of the four parties
who have heretofore owned the busi
ness and operated it: B. F. Slutts of
Ottumwa, Charles F. Israel of Osceola,
O. F. Smith and O. S. Hltchner of Al
bia.
Move Caused by Fire
The plant occupied by the Western
Machine Co., together with the stock
fl
fit. of materials and finlsned product on
hand were burned on the night
November 6, making necessary
seeking of quarters elsewhere.
of
the
The owners -of the business who are
n-it,already Ottumwa residents ex
pect td remove at once to Ottumwa,
and will bring with them the families
of their workmen to the number of
iabout forty.
The plant will employ }n the begin
ning approximately sixty*? hands and
having large contracts with leading
wholesalers and retailers throughout
the countrjr, promises an enterprise
that will go far toward making Ot
tumwa headquarters as a hay tool cen
ter fes Mollne Is a plow center, Chicago
a harvesting machine center, etc., and
It Ip hoped that the1 temporary a,rrange
ipent will prove ultimately to be a per-
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MR8. ROGERS MUST HANQ.
Woman Who Murdered Her Husband
Loses Caae Before Supreme Court.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 27.—The Su
preme court today affirmed the de
cision of .jthe lower court in the case of
Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, under sen
tence of death In Vermont for the
murder of her husband. If the gover
nor or the state courts do not Inter
fere Mrs. Rogers' execution will occur
December 8.
RIOTING IS
DECREASING
SITUATION AT 8EBA8TOPOL IS
8AID TO BE IM
PROVING
St. Petersbrug, Nov. 27.—On ac
count of the critical nature of the
situation all the foreign ambassa
dors who have,been absent on va
cations ar.e hastily returning. It
Is understood the government has
given an intimation to the foreign
powers or the advisability of the
presence of the ambassadors here
during the present crisis.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 27. The sit
uation at Sebastopol Is represented to
be improved, the regiment which went
over in a body to the mutineers hav
ing returned to its allegiance. Re-en
forcements have also arrived at Se
bastopol.
Guns command all the entrances to
the city from Admiralty, the point
where the mutineers are quartered,
and the sailors are virtually prisoners
there.
Peasants Burn Property.
Oboyan, Russia, Nov. 27. The
peasants continue to burn and pillage
the estates. The property of the pres
ldent of the zemstvo of Kursk prov
ince was destroyed last night.
Russian Prisoners Mutinous.
Vladivostok, Nov. 27.—The Russian
prisoners returning here from Japan
are in such a state of mutiny because
It is impossible to immediately ship
them back to Russia that it has be
come necessary to form a camp where
they are held under guard.
..OFFICIAL IS REMOVED.
President Roosevelt Decides Against
Wm. S. Lieb of Philadelphia.
Washington, D.C.,Nov.27—President
Roosevelt today removed from office
William S. Lleb, assistant United
States treasurer at Philadelphia for
"constant and persisteht violation of
'lia civil servies law while in office."
M'CURDYS
RESIGN?
PERKINS QUESTIONED
Says Agent's Commissions' on His In
surance In New York Was Returned
to Him Story of the McCurdy
Family's Career in Mutual Manage
ment.
toew York, Nor. 27.—No official
statement was obtainable at the
Mutual Life offices today as to the
report that Richard A. McCurdy,
president of the coiapany, had re
signed. Unofficially, it is learned,
however, that the company's fin
ance committee is believed to
have McCurdy's resignation under
consideration.
George W. Perkins, rice presi
dent of the New York Life, was
the first witness before the Insur
ance investigating committee to
day.
He testified that he was Insured
in the New York Life for $810,000
on six policies. The commissions
amounted to $318 and he received
these commissions from the agent.
New ^ork, Nov. 27.—In explaining
his testimony of last Friday, when the
statement was made by the witness
that $56,720 was paid to Andrew Ham
ilton by J. P. Morgan & Co., George
Perkins testified that in 1901 Morgan
ft Co. paid that amount to th® Central
National bank and the New York Se
curity ft Trust company upon the re
quest of President McCall, to take up
loans to Edward TC. McCall and An
drew Hamilton which those lnstitu
tlons had made at the request of
President McCall.
Edward 13. McCall Is a Justice of
the New York state supreme court
and Is a brother of President McCall.
The "Nyllo's" Transactions.
Perkins said the $40,198 which was
paid by Kldd*r Peabody & Co. of Bos
ton to the New York life in Septem
ber, 190#,, profits of a loan to that
company ..of $980,000, was paid to Per
kins, as trustee of the "Nyllc" fund
and that ho had negotiated a loan for
that fund. As th® "Nyllc" fuxujl did
not have that amount of money to
spare the New York Life loaned the
money to the Boston firm on Mexican
Central railroad'bonds. The life insur
ance company received interest at the
r»te of 5 per cent of the bonds as its
profit in the transaction and the "Ny
llc" fund got $40,193. The "Nyllc"
fund belongs to the agents of the New
York Life.
McCurdys Out?
New York, Nov. 27.—Richard A.
McCurdy has resigned as president of
the Mutual Life Insurance company.
This is currently reported In financial
circles here and it Is further, declared
that his retirement has been followed
by that or his son, Robert
H. McCurdy, general manager of
the company, and Louts A. Thebaud
the favored general agent for New
York. Each of these three men has
been drawing approximately $150,000
a year in salaries and commissions
from the company besides their indl
rect profits in financial transactions
with mutual money.
The Investigating committee did not
accept Mr. McCurdy's offer to cut his
salary in half because such acceptance
would have pledged them to a contin
ance of the McCurdy regime.
Forgan Declines the Post
A tentative offer to head the com
pany was made to James B. Forgan,
president
ol
the First National bank of
Chicago, who once was an Equitable
director. Mr. Forgan declined to con
sider the offer.
Throughout the long preliminary ex
posure of insurance corruption the
McCurdys kept aloof from the Insur
ance mire. Not until the legislative
committee got after the venerable
president was the condition ex
isting in the Mutual brought to light.
Then It was shown:
That President McCurdy, his son,
(Contlnued on Page 8.)
SEVERESTORM
COAST TOWNS IN GREAT BRITAIN
ARE DAMAGED—VE8EL
LOST
London, Nov. 27.—Great aggregate
damage was done to the coast towns
of Great Britain by last night's storm.
Many small vessels were driven ashore
but hus far only a few lives are re
ported to have been lost.
A small coastlg steamer, the Peridot,
was totally wrecked on the Island of
Magee ard the members of the crew
were all lost. Seven bodies have been
washed ashore.
The provinces report great damage
by the gale. Telegraph wires are cut
down and the the telephone line to
Paris
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CONFIDENT RUMOR TO THAT EF- CHICAGO ALDERMAN WANTS TO
FECT IS CIRCULATED IN
NEW YORK
PREVENT PLAYING OF GAME
IN CITY
Chicago, Nov. 27.—Alderman Harris
announced that he will this evening
Introduce an order Into a meeting of
the city council, directing the corpo
ration counsel to draft an ordinance
prohibiting the game of football In
Chicago until the present rules are
modified, and the dangers of brutality
are eliminated from the game. The
order will not in any way interfere
with the Chicago-Michigan game on
Thanksgiving day.
Pennsylvania 8tarts the Fight.
Philadelphia, Noy, 27.—Following
the suggestion of President RooBevelt
for uniform eligibility rules in college
athletics and for the elimination of
unnecessary roughness, brutality, and
foul play in the American game of
football, the University of Pennsylva
nia has taken the initiative for the
suggested reforms and has addressed
a circular letter on the subject to the
heads of all universities, colleges, pri
vate schools, and other Institutions in
tue United States Interested in athlet
ics.
This action was taken after a num
ber of meetings of the university com
mittee on athletics of the University
of Pennsylvania, at which the Presi
dent's thoughts on the subject were
discussed. The committee formulat
ed rules which it thought would meet
the situation and decided to send them
to the authorities of all educational
Institutions In the country for consid
eration and adoption if they meet
with approval.
POSTOFFICE 18 ROBBED.
Burglars Dynamite Safe at Biuegrass,
Scott County, Securing $78.
Davenport, Nov, 27.—(Special.)—
The postofflce at Bluegfeiss, Scott
county, was robbed last sight. The
safe was dynamited and $78 taken.
The robbers escaped.
iFIELD IS FAILING.
Chicagoan, Victim of Pistol 8hot, Is
Reported Worse Today.
Chicago, Nov. 27.—The condition of
Marshall Field, Jr., was much worse
today although lae physicians declar
ed they had not yet abandoned hope
for liis recovery. j.:
A SAD EVENT
FUNERAL OVER VICTIM8 OF MUR
DER ARE BURIED AT
INDEPENDENCE
Waterloo, Nov. 27. —(Special)—The
funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. William McWllllams and her five
children, who were murdered In
most brutal manner at their home in
Independence Friday, were held at the
Methodist Episcopal church in Inde
pendence Sunday. The largest crowd
the town ever saw was in attendance
and when the grave that had been
made for the six corpses caved In the
cemetery was cleared by officers and
the burial was private. Rev. J. E. Tay
lor and Rev. J. C. Kepford, preached
the funeral sermons, one holding serv
ices In the auditorium and the other
in the basement of the Methodist
church, the only plan that could be
adopted to accommodate the crowds
An extra guard was placed about
the jail where McWilliams who is sus
pected of having murdered his wife
and children is confined.
FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
IOWA LAW
to
One Man In St. Loulq la Burned
Death and Others Are Injured.
East St. Louis, 111., Nov. 27.
rick Mesner was burned to death and
six other persons were injured during
a fire in a south end hotel today. The
loss was small.
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SUPREME COURT H0LD8 THAT
INSURANCE MEA8URE 18
CONSTITUTIONAL-
Washington, D.C., Nov. 27.—The su
preme court of theUnited States today
reversed the decision of the circuit
court for the southern district of Iowa
In the case of Beryj F. Carroll, auditor
of state of Iowa, against the Green
wich insurance company of New York
and others. The case involved the
coniBtltutlonallty of the state law
which prohibits Insurance companies
from entering Into an agreement to
fix rates of insurance, or the amount
of commission to be paid to agents.
Today'b opinion, delivered by Justice
Holmes, sustains the constitutionality
of the Iowa law..
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SULTAN IN
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TURKEY ACCEDES TO
OF POWERS REGARDING
MACEDONIA
FLEET'S WORK IS EASY
Vienna, Nov. 27.—A dispatch t.
from Constantinople says the sul
tan, through the foreign minister!
has announced to Baron von Ca-V
lice, ambassador of Austria-Hun
gary, that Turkey accedes to th«
demands of the powers regarding
the financial control of Macedonia.-/
Constantinople, Nov. 27, —(Via SO
fla)—The instructions to the command
ers of the International fleet were to
land detachments and occupy Myti
lene at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, un
less contrary orders reached them la
the Interim. It is presumable there
fore that the capital of the island !a
now in the hands of the allied forces.
The fleet of the allied powers ar
rived at the island of Mytylene Sun
day.
The foreign minister Tewflk Pasha
on Saturday, visited the British am
bassador, Sir Nicholas R. O'Connor,
and the Austro^ungarian ambassador
Baron von Callce, with the object of
proposing a modification of the Mace
donian reform schemo by which the
financial delegates of the powers la
Macedonia should4 be appointed by ths
porte and designated as Ottoman fin
ancial councilors. The surrender of
the sultan Is an indication that ths
powers refused td entertain his propo
sition.
Prompt Action Necessary.
New York, Nov. 27.—Oscars jS.
Straus,'formerly United States minis
ter to Turkey, In an Interview empha
sized the importance of prompt action
by the powers against the sultan. Mr,
Straus said:
"What emboldens the sultan to hold
out' against the powers for a proper
administration in Macedonia is not be
cause Of the strength of Turkey, but
tho. weakness of Russia. RusBla has
been the dominating power In Turkey
since the Crimean war, when English
influence declined. The defeat of
Russia, together with the dreadful
misrule in the czar's domain, culmin
ating In the massacre of JewB, could
not fall to have a double Influence on
the sultan, one external and the other
internal. Russia has been shown not
to be that strong power from without
that always has terrorized the Turk.
Instead of* being an element ot
strength to the powers and forcing the
sultan to yield, Russia Is the chief ele
ment. of weakness and emboldens the
sultan to resistance. It is important
that a peremptory notice be given by
the powers before the fleets make an
other move."
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HEROIC EFFORTS FUTILE.
Iowa Central Fireman Falls to 8av*
Frightened Child From Death.
Marshalltown, Nov. 27.—(Special).—
The 2-year-old daughter of Ben Large
was run down and killed by an Iowa
Central train at Union today. She be
came frightened at the approach of the
train and ran directly In front of It.
The fireman leaped upon the cow
catcher and made a desperate effort to
save the child but he was too late.
DOUGHERTY'8 PLAN 8P0ILED.
Is Held As a Witness In Case of Mgn H?#
Who Was His Friend.
Peoria, 111., Nov. 27. Plans for
spiriting Newton C. Dougherty oil to *ig|%
Jollet penitentiary in an automobile jv
were thwarted Sunday when it was
found that the prisoner is the sole
witness to the will of Calvin C. Lines
a director of the Peoria National S/
bank, who died as a result' of the #1^
shock attending the closing of that in
stltutlon. Dougherty's presence in
court today is necessary at the pro* ?!V
bate. -var-,
IS LEGAL KILLS NINE
KEYSTONE POWDER PLANTW
BLOWS UP WITH FATAL
RESULTS
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Orders to Take Mytilene Were to
Be Carried Out at Noon Today and
Announcement of Sultan's Surren
der Came 8oon* Afterward—Trouble
Waa Expected.
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Emporium, Pa., Nov. 27.—The Key- '"'"fM
stone Powder company's mixing house
blew up today, killing nine persons. vM
The town was badly shaken. The
Keystone works are completely do
stroyed. Sif
Blast Proves Fatal. "j.p\
Kansas City, Nov. 27.—One person ji*?
was killed and twelve were Injured,
none seriously, as a result of biasing
rock today In the center of the busl
ness district, where an excavation is
being made for an office building. 5%