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1M The Circulation of The Inquirer is greater than that of any other morning neivspaper in the United States excepting tivo in Neiv York City. The Circulation of The Inquirer is great- than that of any other morning ef jer in the United States except- two in New York City. I VOL 159, NO 150 THE WE ATHER Fair and Colder PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1908 Convrisht. 1908. by The Philadelphia Inquirer Co.

ONE CENT FOUR LOST WHEN LINER SINKS IN HEAVY FOG CRASH PENN DEFEATS CORNELL IN GRANDLY PL A YED GAME BY SCORE OF 1 7 0 PRIZE IN FIAT GRID 11 RACE Louis VVagn er Tri mphs in Greatest Auto Race of Year i iiiimiii ill if iiMstiit ii 1 4 1 A "4 COX WILL TAKE Rfl'ni SIRI'P CREW OF FINANCE ON BOARD THE GEORGIC, INQUIRER DISPATCH BOAT ALONGSIDE THE INSET IS AN ETCHING OF THE FINANCE From photographs taken expressly for The Inquirer. 1 tf At i Panama Steamer Finance Rammed Off Sandy Hook by the eo gi omen TRAFFIC II BAD EBGS TO RESULT Mi! ARRESTS Splendid Crowd in Holiday Attire and Gay With Enthusiasm Cheers Teams From the Gr eat Stands at Franklin Field. Miller9 Wonderful Runs ULHIH i LMu AS THE SPEAKEI Republican Legislature Plans Agreed Upon by. Penrose Leaders NO PLACES FOR CAUCUS BOLTERS Formal announcement was made yesterday of the calling of the Republican caucuses for agreement upon officers "of tin? andIIouRe of Representatives of Pennsylvania and the joint caucus to name the Republican candidate for Vmted States Senator to succeed Baies Penrose. All of these caucuses will be held in Harrisburg on Monday evening.

January 4. The General Assembly will convene upon the d3y following, and the' officers of the Senate and the House receiving the caucus nominations will then be elected. Each House will, on Tuesday, January 19, vote upon the election of a L'nited States Senator, and upon the following day they will meet in joint convention and elect the Senator. Boies Penrose unquestionably be elected to succeed himself for a term of six years, beginning on the Fourth of next March. Itepnblica.il Canon Favorites After a canvass of the situation covering every section of the State, the election of the following officers of the General Assembly is foreshadowed: President pro tem of the State SenateA.

E. SISSON, Erie. Chief Clerk of State Senate H. M. KEPHART, Fayette.

Librarian of State Senat HERMAN P. MILLER, Dauphin. Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN F. COX Allegheny. Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives THOMAS H.

GARVIN, Delaware. Resident Clerk of House of Representatives CHARLES JOHNSON, Montgomery. The only one in the above list of whose election there appears to be any doubt is former Representative Kephart, of Continued on 10th Page, 1st Column and hildren Panic in Special to The Inquirer. NEW YORK, Nov. 26.

Four lives were lost today when the steamship Finance, of the Panama Railroad Steamship Company, bound from this port to Colon, was run into and sunk in the Narrows, two miles east of Sandy Hook, by the freight steamship Georgic, of the White Star Line, bound from Liverpool to New The disaster was due to the dense fog which has blanketed" the "harbor" for last several days. The Finance, with eighty-eight passengers and a crew of sixty-five aboard, was lying at anchor when the Georgic crashed into her, tearing a great hole in her port side. The Georgic, having taken advantage of a temporary rift in the fog pall, was on her way to the dock when the collision occurred. The Finance sunk in less than fifteen minutes. The Dead The dead are: MISS IRENE CAMPBELL, of Fox River, Cristobal, a dressmaker, 26 years who had been visiting relatives in New-York.

CHARLES L. SCHWEIXLER, a policeman on the Canal Zone, who had been visiting: in Brooklyn, his former home. HENRY MULLEIt, a conductor on the trains of the Isthmian Canal Commission, formerly of Iloboken. "WILLIAM TODD, of New York City, third assistant engineer of the Finance. The Finance was struck acid-ships, just abaft of her funnel on the port side.

A large gap was torn in her hull and through this the water poured eo quickly that the vessel began settling within a few moments after the crash. Men, women and children rushed to the decks in the wild excitement that followed and were there taken in command by the officers of "the ship, headed by Captain Edmund Mowbray. Compelled Cowards to Return One act of cowardice marred the general heroism. Almost as soon as the col lision was heard five men, whose identity were lost in the confusion, leaped into the first lifeboat to strike the water, lashed the rope with knives and started to pull away from the sinking ship on which sixteen women and as many children were crying for help. Captain Mowbray on the bridge of the ship drew his revolver and shouted to the five men: "Bring that boat back.

I'll drop the first man that tries to get away." Instantly the boat was rowed back to Continued on 4th Page, 1st Column HEIVIERY'S BENZ 56 SECONDS SLOWER Nazzaro's Fiat Was Third Immense Crowd Watches -Perfectly-Policed Contest- Special to The Inqnlrer. SAVANNAH, Nov. 26 In a finish that will be remembered long; as automobiles are used in this country Louis Wagner, driving a Fiat car, today won the inaugural contest for the $5000-srand prizs of the Automobile Club of America. When he flashed "over the lino at the end of hi? sixteenth and last lep, his margin cf victory was so narrow that his admirers held their breaths until the official announcement was made, uncertain that the glory of winning the great rcce was his. Five minutes earlier Victor Hernery, urging one of the huge Bcnz machines to the limit had thundered over the line completing the race.

He had, however, started in eighth place, while Wagner's position at the breakaway was fourteen. Never before in the history of this newest of sports had the fortunes of war changed so often as in the running of today's race. As the struggle progressed its closeness aroused the spectators to a point of frenzy. First one and then another driver would spring into the lead, but hanging on in a grim effort to advance were always two and sometimes four and five pursuers so close that there could be no assurance of what the subsequent lap would bring forth. Kaitaro Takes Lead Finally, after advancing from seventh place in the second lap, Felice Nazzaro, one of Wagner's teammates, drew into the lead on the twelfth lap, having covered just three-quarters of the 402.0S miles course, and swept along in such commanding fashion that it seemed he could not be kept out of the winning -r- Leaving the cheering thousands at the grandstand at the meeting of his last lap his car appeared to be working moothly, and there was very little question but that he would be back again in the lead.

It was at this stage that Naznaro met his Waterloo. Somewhere out on the smooth course that he had been following for nearly six hours, one of his tires went flat, and with victory staring "him in the face he was obliged to shut off and make a change, while flashed past him the only two Continued on ISth Page, 4tk Column RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR KIDNAPPED ON HONEYMOON Governors Stuart and Swanson "Diplomatically" Separate Newly Married Couple Visiting Pittsburg Special to The Inquirer. PITTSBURG, Nov. 26. Arriving with his bride in Pittsburg to avoid publicity on his wedding tour Governor J.

H. Higgins, of Rhode Island, was discovered by Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, and Governor Swanson, of Virginia, and diplomatically persuaded to take part in the sesqui-centennial celebration, and also to attend a dinner last night. Although Governor Higgins and Miss Ellen Maguire were married tl Pawtucket on November 17, almost immediately after the Governor's election, he is so popular and his friends so persistent that he has been kept hopping since that time. Governors Stuart and Swanson met every excuse offered by Governor Higgins, and finally he agreed to attend the sequi meeting last night. Before going to the meeting Governor Higgins begged for a chance to say a.

few words to Mrs. Higgins, but Governors Stuart and Swanson diplomatically informed him that he had better communicate with her by telephone. Again they triumphed in the good-natured argument. TROLLEY PASSENGER DISCOVERS FIRE Theodore Atkins Leads Crew to Rescue of Woman In Blazing House Shouting to Conductor Freeley on a Erie avenue trolley at Thirteenth and York streets to stop the car, Theodore A. Atkins, of 3531 North Broad street, yesterday led the crew and passengers into the burning second-story room of the home of Solomon Weinberg, 2448 North Thirteenth street, and succeeded in rescuing Mrs.

Weinberg from her perilous position. She was lying across the bed, awake and apparently too terrified by the sight of the fire to move. Rushing to the bed, Mr. Atkins roused tke woman and half carried, half dragged her from the room. The blaze, which was confined to the window curtains and the woodwork about the front of the room, was extinguished by the men who had rushed into the house with Mr.

Atkins. Mrs. Weinberg had gone to her room directly after dinner, with the intention of dressing her hair. She lighted the gas, then lay down upon the bed for a moment's nap. She awakened and saw flames, evidently started by the wind Mowing the flimsy lace curtains against the lighted gas jet.

ball away. He finally pulled his arm away and shot the ball straight to Draper on Cornell's 5-yard line. The Penn section was cheering wildly. Cornell's disciples were silent, waiting fearfully. Captain Hollenback would take no chances and had the ball passed to him for an end run.

With one of his terrific plunges, he tore through the left wing of the Cornell eleven and planted the ball behind the goal post. Scarlett kicked the goal and the score then stood 6 to 4 in favor of Penn. It was battledore and shuttlecock for Continued on 12th Page, 1st Column ASTHMA EASILY CURED CKERS OE Till; Fin 0 HURT 111 JWiG Crew Endangered as Engine and Freight Cars Leave Track OBSTACLE ON RAIL ALONG STEEP GRADE One man was injured, another had a narrow escape amid the wreckage by the merest chance, and the lives of several of the train crew were endangered last veiling when unknown miscreants wrecked a freight train of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Twenty-fifth street and Point Breeze avenue. Suddenly striking the obstacle, which the officials of the milroad say was placed on the rail, the engine of the freight train, which was made up of forty cars loaded with grain, left the track. The engine was No.

2707, and was one of the biggest and most powerful locomotives in the Pennsylvania service. The train was traveling at the rate of about twenty miles an hour on a clear down grade when the engine suddenly left the rail. "The engineer, Charles Deardon, and the fireman, John Creener, aged 30 years, both of Harrisburg, sprang to the step of the cab and leaped to the ground. Engine Hits Telegrraph Pole Deardon escaped without injury, but Creener fell on some rocks and fractured his ankle. He was sent to St.

Agnes' Hospital. After leaving the tracks, the engine ran along the ties for a distance of fifty feet, and then, after grinding them into splinters, hit a telegraph pole. Snapping -it off like a matchstick, the train then ran into a field, which it tore up like a gigantic plow. For a hundred yards it ran in the field paralleling the tracks, carrying the tender and the first two cars with it. The rest of the train remained on the tracks.

After plowing up the field and throwing a big furrow on each side of the cowcatcher, the engine and the tender Continued on 2d Page, Uth Column Bainbridge street, and Antony Bosky, 18 years old, of 3236 St. James street, were taken to the University Hospital with broken ankles. Edward Lewis, 19 years old, of 2S08 Ellsworth street, -was also treated there for a severely lacerated head. In a game yesterday morning between the Frankford Club and the Wildwood Athletic Association, at Frankford, John Smith, 20 years old," of 1547 Margaretta street, and Harry Kynock, 25 years old, of 4730 Cedar street, both members of the first team, were taken to the Frankford Hospital, the former with a fractured rib, and the latter with a lacerated head. Great Shot, Colonel Good Special to The Inquirer.

GREENWOOD, Nov. ,26. Colonel Good, of Philadelphia, took the quailing record around Greenwood yesterday, when in one day's shooting he killed foy-seven. birds. 1 IRE Unscrupulous Bakers Accused of Using Doctored Product PTOMAINE POISONING GAVE FIRST; CLUE Startling revelations of the trading in putrid, stale and "doctored eggs" in this-, city, their use by certain bakers in making bread, cake, biscuits, pie and noodles and their responsibility for a number of cases of severe ptomaine poisoning, are promised within the next twenty-four hours by State Dairy and Food Commissioner, James Foust.

H. Cassidy, special agent for the Commissioner, whose far reaching investigations, extending over several weeks past, have developed the charges said last nierht that warrants would be issued, probably today, by Magistrate Beaton for the arrest of those who have been trafficking in eggs not fit for consumption." Traffic In Bad Ekkh Large Mr. Cassidy, who has long been active in this city in gathering evidence against those who have violated the pure food laws, stated that it has been the practice of the men who will be arrested to buy up in large quantities eggs that were putrid, stale, "frozen," "spotted," "rejected," or otherwise in a condition unfit for eating, from certain grocers. The shells would then be removed, after they had been submitted to the usual "candle test," the "spots" cast aside and what remained of the yoke and "white" thrust into large cans. The latter, he said, were of the usual 40-quart milk kind, into which 100 pounds of bad yokes and "whites" were put with formaldehyde to preserve them.

This mixture waj3 sold at twelve cents a pound to bakers, from whom Mr. Cassidy says he obtained samples. These will be used as evidence against those who will be arraigned before Magistrate Beaton. In speaking of -the matter Cassidy expressed regret that the law imposing a penalty for such an offense was not more severe, a fine of (0 being the maximum punishment for it. He intimated that hoped that one result of his exposure of the tiaffic would be the enactment of more stringent legislation dealing with it.

Sold at Cent Each He said that some of the traffickers in bad eggs did not even take the trouble to remove their shells, but simply sold them at a cent each to bakers who did Continued on 10th Page, 2d Column B'RER RABBIT FOOLED THE PHILADELPHIA GUNNER Got Away With His Suspenders, Whisked His Cotton Tail and Laughed Gaily DOVER, Nov. Philadelphia gunner came to Smyrna a few days ago and hunted all day in upper Kent county for rabbits and quail without success, it is said. Finally he came upon a rabbit which had been trapped and was scuffling to get free. He promptly appropriated it, but as he walked toward town it occurred to hirn that it would be ridiculous to take in a live rabbit without even a wound. He decided to tie it to a cornstalk and shoot it.

The gunner rummaged through his pockets and could find no string, so he took off his suspenders, tied the rabbit to the cornstalk and banged away. Off dashed the rabbit with a whisk of his cotton tail and wearing the suspenders. The marksman had shot off the corn-t-talk but had not injured the game. The marksman returned to town holding his pantaloons and his peace as best he could. CLEAVE SAYS TARIFF REVISION MUST BE SQUARE Saying Country Will Not Stand for Bogus One ST.

LOUIS, Nov. 26 Regarding the tariff hearings before the Ways and Means Committee at Washington, James Wi Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, gave out a statement in which he says: "Several strange things connect themselves with these hearings. I am told only about 100 out of the 250,000 heads of factories in the country received notice to appear before the committee. In most cases the notice which they received was too short to allow them to present carefully prepared statements, although all of them have the privil-lege of submitting briefs at any timo prior to December 4. The hearings, which will close on December 4, will Continued on 10th Page, Uth Column in the lobbies of Parliament the Nationalists created a hubbub by threatening to call the government to account unless orders were given immediately to probe the scandal to the bottom.

Political opponents of the government, like Henri Roehefort, have been trying to make political capital of the affair by seeking to force an exposure of the scandal connected with the mysterious death of Felix Faure, president of the republic in 1899. Although hushed up at the time', it was common knowledge of those behind the scenes that Mme. Steinheil was with M. Faure at the Elysee Palace when Faure died. Some of the Parisian afternoon newspapers do not hesitate to print what they term the story of the liaison.

According to these stories M. Faure had met Mme. Steinheil in the Swiss Alps during the maneuvers the year previous to his death, and she was greatly enamored of him. Compromising; Political Papers A person jwho attended the funeral of M. Faure described today how, after the ceremony at the cemetery Mme.

Steinheil fell on her knees before the grave and took from her bosom a bunch of Continued on Sd Page, 5th Column SCANDAL BEHIND STEIN HEIL MURDER MAY SHAKE FRANCE FIRST HALF -Penn, Cornell, 4. SECOND HALF Penn, 11; Cornell, 0. FINAL SCORE Penn, 17; Cornell, 4. In a bruising, battering battle, in which strength was evenly matched, the Pennsylvania gridiron warriors yesterday triumphed over Cornell to the noise of 17 to 4. Phenomenal playing in the second half, heavy plunging and long sensational runs enabled Penn to roll up the score.

The final minutes of play were fraught with quick action and thrilling dodges and dashes. It was the annual Thanksgiving game that concludes Penn's football schedule, and- tne attendance was even greater in size and more brilliant in raiment than in former years. Society was out in force. The boxes were filled with men and women prominent in the highest social realms. Auto-mibiles chugged to the grounds bearing the elect.

All the hotels were crowded with diners before and after the game. It was the Penh spirit, more than any other attribute, that won the hard-fought game for the local college men. First blood had been drawn by Cornell when a goal from the field was scored in the first ten minutes of play. Penn Spirit In Evidence But as' the tally of 4 was recorded on the scoreboard, the Penn spirit came uppermost, and "Big Bill" Hollenback started to pound the Cornell line like a battering ram. He tore big gashes in the centre despite the strong resistance of Cornell.

One of Penn's players tried to make a forward pass, but three Cornell players were upon him before he could get the THE WEATHER Forecast, from Washington. Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey Fair, colder Friday fresh west winds; Saturday, fair. District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Fair, colder Friday Saturday, fair; light to fresh west winds. Western Pennsylvania Colder and fair Friday, except possibly sqow flurries near Lake Erie, fresh to strong west winds Saturday, fair. New York Herald's Forecast.

In the Middle States and New England today partly overcast and cooler weather will prevail, preceded by rain or snow in the northern district, with fresh southwesterly to westerly wind, followed by clearing. On Saturday fair and colder weather will prevail with fresh westerly to northwesterly wind, and on Sunday fair weather wlih slightly lower temperature. Steamers now leaving New York for Europe will have mostly light and moderate southwesterly breezes and partly cloudy weather to the Banks. For Detailed Weather Report See Second Pag-e Eighth' Column MANY FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN GRIDIRON CONTESTS Wife of Victim Arrestea Admits She Had Noble Lover. Charged That Police Suppress Facts to Shield High Personages All the Hospitals Treated Followers of Pigskin Who Had Their Bones Broken Readily Conquered lr Recent Set.

entiflc Discovery In spite of the fact that the majority of asthma sufferers are inclined towards' the belief that asthma is incurable, the statement is made without qualification that the only positive. and permanent cure for this distressing disease is the celebrated' specific known to the medical profession as ascatco, and dispensed since its discovery a short time ago by the Anrtriau Laboratory, 32 West 25th Street, New York City. Chronle eases of asthma in all parts of the country have been permanently cured by this wonderful preparation, which Is taken by the patient In his or her home, without necessitating a change of climate, which is foolishly supposed to be necessary. The demand for ascatco In Philadelphia has caused the directors of the Austrian Laboratory, of 32 West 23th Street, New York City, to srcppiy Geo. H.

Evans and the Miller Dm? Co. with a quantity of the preparation a fifty-cent size for mild cases, and the $2 size, sufficient for one month's treatment, and which will cure chronic eases with a rapidity that will simply astonish the patient. "JACK ROSE" RYE "PABU" GIN Tl FLASKS 25c ALL SALOONS R-E-M-O-It-S-E If you have not already bought your new Suit or Overcoat Didn't it rather rub you the wrong way to mix with the well dressed merry crowd Jhat thronged the streets yesterday? Of course, you'd-hare felt better you'd haye entered more into the spirit of the festivities if you had your-new clothes. "but there's no use 'crying oyer spilt milk. Simply profit by the lesson and quit procrastinating.

There'll be Suits and Winter Overcoats her for you even though you wait until after the New Year. but why not pick from a tail line instead of from the "leavings-" Dozens of styles of Suits at every price from $15 to $40. And a remarkable array of Overcoats at $15 to $55. PEBRV4CO, 16th A Chestnut Stret. PARIS.

Nov. 26. Paris is in a state of intense excitement tonight, following the arrest of Madame Steinheil, who confessed today that for months since the murder of her painter husband and Madame Japy, who were found strangled in the home of the artist on the morning of May 31, her attempt to find the assassins and the innumerable fantastic clues furnished the police and the newspapers were only a desperate farce to conceal the real author of the crime, whom she knew. The excitement produced from time to time by the-Humbert, Dreyfus and Syve-ton affairs pales into insignificance by comparison, and the revelations which crowded thick and fast during the day, pointing to the possible exposure of a national scandal, promise to attract world-wide attention. Fanre'i Death Brongrht In Unprecedented scenes were witnessed at the Palace of Justice today while the woman was' under examination, guards being required to restrain the crowds from entering.

On the boulevards men fought for special editions of newspapers having in them accbunts of the case, while Football yesterday was responsible for a number of its followers sustaining broken bones. Fractured legs, arms and ribs and many less serious injuries, due to the game, kept hospital surgeons busy. At lease seven such injuries occurred in West Philadelphia. Oliver Frankinfield, 19 years old, of 5300 Vine street, again fractured two ribs that were just beginning to knit together from a similar accident two weeks ago. He was taken to the West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hospital with L.

H. Keyser, 2-4 years old, of 5103 Columbia avenue, who sustained the same kind of an injury in the same scrimmage in which Frankinfield was hurt. James Pennell, 20 years old, of 1806 South Fifty-eighth street, fractured his right leg, and was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital. William Dougherty, six years old, of 3852 Spring Garden street, was treated at the same institution for a dislocated right shoulder, William Ressher, 20 years old of 2115.