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The Classified Columns of The Telegraph Are Unusually Well Filled Today With Opportunities. Read Them BURG GRAPH ESTABLISHED 1831. HARRISBURG, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1909. 12 PAGES LAST EDITION. TE1 Big Highway Bill Prepared For Reading It and Other Measures Favored By Governor Are Ready TWO MORE TROOPS OF STATE POLICE Cross State Highway Is to Go Through This City Among the bills which will probably go before the Legislature next week will be Governor Stuart's State highway bill and the measure for the appointment of an executive controller to go over the bills which must receive the Governor's approval.

These measures have been prepared and are expected to be read in place Monday night. Both were urged in the Governor's message, and have been outlined in The Telegraph. Bills to provide two additional troops of State police are also contemplated. A fourth administration bill likely to prohibit any appropriations except by Specific amounts. This has been the custom since Attorney General Todd gave his decision, but it is said the Governor desires to enact, it into a law.

The road bill will be presented In the House by Representative Ambler, of llucks county, chairman of the Committee on Public Roads, and may be introduced in the Senate, by request, by Senator Thomson, of Chester county, chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Roads and Highways. When, during the week, Senator Sproul. of Delaware county, presented a bill creating a board to provide for a State highway across the State, and to take charge of all public road construction and maintenance, that this was the bill backed by the Governor. It has since developed, however, that the Governor had had no part in the preparation of the Sproul bill, and had not given his endorsement. Will Go Through Hanisburjr.

The bill that will have the endorse ment of the Governor will provide that the selection of the exact route Of the proposed State highway shall be left to the Governor, the Attorney General and State Highway Commis sioner and proposes to elect a route that will be in the interests LUul I greatest number of the citizens of the Commonwealth. It is to be via Har rlsburg, and will touch sucn oilier county seats as may be deemed practicable. Another of the administration bills will be one providing tor an increase in the number of troops composing State police. Captain Groome superintendent of the State police, was in Harriiburg a few days ago, and is said to have seen Governor Stuart and discussed with the executive the necessity of augmenting the force. Captain Groome favors the treating of two additional troops.

The Vivisection Bill I'nusual interest hna been aroused In the hearing to bo given on the nntl vivlsectlon bill by tho House Committee on 1'ublb; llenlth and Sanitation next Tuesday evening by the announcement that a Swedish woman, Miss Llnf af Hageby, will appear In favor of tho Thompson bill to prohibit vivisection. Miss Hageby la probably ono of tho most active antl vlvlscctionlsts In tho world and has been working In this country for several months. Recently in Philadelphia sho aroused considerable interest and it Is said that number of peoplo from tho Quaker City will be lorn to attend the hearing. It 1b probable that the bill, which tarries (inn or from $250 to 1,000. will be opposed by a number of medical men.

It prohibits the cutting up of any animal for experiments and places a bur upon surgery upon man or beast except for bcuellclttl purposes. LIFE CRUSHED OUT Fatal Accident At Lundlshurg; II onto Tails On Driver, Breaking Down Client. Sftcial to the Tllegrafh. Lnndlsburg, Feb. 27.

Thursday whllo Samuel Moomo, who resided near Andersonburg, was hauling lumber for A. D. Couch to tho Sher mans Valley Railroad station at Andersonburg, his horses became frightened at tho westbound trnln. Mr. Moose endeavored to hold tho frightened horsi but ho was thrown over a lumber pllo, ono horso Tallinn on him.

His head was badly rut ana brulHi'd and hU chest was crushed. Medical aid was procured at once, hut to no avail, and tho patient died Friday morning. Interment will bo Uiada In Hi. Paul Cemetery Monday. PHILADELPHIA FIRE Seven Story Building Hudljr IbtniHg ed With Lom of IOO.OOO; Firemen Hurt.

fly AiiocMttd Press. Philadelphia, Feb, 27. The large ven Mriiy building at" R29 Arch Itreet. occupied by tho Paxson Comfort Company, undertakers' supplies, and Mvrl other firm. hsdly damaged by Are rarh today totalling lota estimated llOp.onn, Two firemen were slightly Injured.

to (it tliell, Samuel E. Russell Quits After 50 Years WILL LEAVE PENXSY LONG SERVICE. AFTER Former Member of Common Council and Well Known All Over the City. With a notable record of nearly half a hundred years' employment in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in this city, Samuel E. Russell, of 1919 North Sixth street, wijl be placed on the retired list Monday, March 1.

Mr. Russell was born In Harris burg. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served with distinction throughout the entire war. At the close he returned Harrisburg and entered the Penn sylvania railroad shops, January 16, 18C4, leaving the trade of boilermak er, and he has ever since continued with them. The only time he was employed elsewhere being for six weeks, when he was at the Reuovo shop.

For the past 16 years he has been a stay bolt inspector. During the time he has been employed at the shop he has served under three master mechanics, M. A. Shattuck, E. L.

Cowan and the present one, Joseph Davis, and under two foreman, John W. Gray and J. C. Johnson. For the past two years he had not done any active work owing to his being disabled by sickness.

Mr. Russell's reputation as a veteran is not confined solely to his work as he has been a member of Hope Fire Company since 1SG5. In 1S79 he was a member of Common Council and from 18K6 to 1890 represented the Sixth ward in Select Council. Mr. Russell is a very active member of Post 116.

G. A. and interested in all matters pertaining to military doings. NO LOVERS QUARREL S. W.

Sheets Denies He Had Differences With Girl Preceding Suicide. In a Mexico (Pa.) dispatch relating to the suicide of Miss Nellie Hains, published in The Telegraph of February 19, it was stated that friends thought the young woman had taken her life because of an alleged (iiarrel with her lover. It was also stated that she had been keeping company with a nursery salesman by the name of Sheets, who had headquarters at Mifflintown. Relative to these statements Samuel V. Bhectz called at the office of The Telegraph today.

He said he was the man referred to in the dispatch, but denied emphatically that he and the young woman had quarreled. He said that he has in his possession a letter written by the woman showing that he and nn Iinot tar ma Mr pile iiiv uiu. sheets has been considerably troubled the report that a quarrel with Miss Hains had preceded her suicide and makes this statement to set himself right before the public. PIT WAS EXCITED Soaring Price of May Wheat Continued In Record breaking Am cut; July By Associated Press. Chicago.

Feb. 27. The wheat market continued Its record breaking ascent to day: May selling at $1.11. and the July delivery at $1,051 shortly after the sesslno of the Hoard of Trade opened. Tho pit was in a ferment of excitement.

lK'AL OPTION MEETING Two Prominent SMiikers Listed for Tomorrow. Arthur W. Dennlson, of Warren, and Jerome T. Ailnian, of Juniata, will be the speakers tomorrow at the regular Sunday local option mass, meeting under tho auspices of the State Anti Saloon League. The meet ing will bo held at 3.30 o'clock.

LIEUTENANT HRINSER HOME Lieutenant Harry L. Brlnscr. of tho United States battleship Vermont, returned home this morning from Hampton Koads, where tho world touring fleet Is located, on a visit to his parents. Mr. and Mrs.

C. S. Brln Hor, of 1 000 North Third street. Ho will remain In tho city until tomorrow evening, whim ho returns to his ship. It is expected that they will bo ordered to Boston navy yard within tho next ten day, when a furlough will be granted the men.

Lieutenant UrltiMer In a rjraduuto Annapolis, class of 1899, and has boon stationed on the Vermont for some time. Ho reports a very pleasant and Interesting trip. WAR CLOUDS MOVINO Hy Associated Press, Berlin. Feb. 27.

The situation be. tween Austria Hungary and Sorvla In vkwed much more hopefully today at tho Foreign ODIco. Inasmuch as Russia has agreed to participate In a Joint note at Ilolgrado, It la be lleved that Hervla will see that she completely Isolated and without any prospect of foreign assistance should alio go to wor. TO REDUCE FREIGHT RATE Hy Anociated Press. Chicago.

Feb, 27. Important reductions front the new schedule of trans continental freight rates, which went Into effect January 1 and which have aroused the active opposition of nblppers from the Atlantic to the I'a rlflc, have been screed upon by the railroads and will bo made effective ii mnn a tr anienuen tarins run be P.M with I Interstate Comnierco Commission. Pipe Bending Co. Increases Its Capacity Extensive Improvements Will Be Made In Pipe Mill Department PLANT EMPLOYS 650 MEN STEADILY Steelton Works Are Running! Along Well Witli Large Furnace Outputs The Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company expect to close a large portion of their works next week to make some long contemplated and important improvements, the most extensive of which will be in the pipe mill department. These improvements and changes are expected to largely Increase the output of this i department.

Notwithstanding the industrial and financial depression of last year this company has been running steadily, giving employment to about six hundred and fifty men. The product of the big plant in the shape of coils and merchant pipe goes to all parts of this country and the world. Its development iu recent years has been one of the gratifying features of the local industrial situation. At the Pennsylvania Steel Works everything was run this week, and it is expeqted to make a fair month in March. The rail mill resumed this week after several weeks' Idleness, and will run steadily.

The open hearth department and blast furnaces are making large products. Conditions in South Harrisburg are about the same as last week, and the Central plant will run on the same scale. Manager Jones, of the Lalance and Grosjean tin plate mills, says that the outlook for March favors running on the same scale as February. The output this month has been good. Other plants report fair conditions and unchanged prospects.

P. 0. CLERKS ELECT Luncheon Foll.tws Annual Meeting Of Association. The annual meeting of Branch 89, I'nited National Association of Post office Clerks, was held in the Federal Building last evening. After the business session a luncheon was served and a general good time prevailed.

Much interest is being manifested by the Harrisburg clerks in the State convention which will be held in this city on May 17 and the booster committee, composed of the entire membership, is boosting the efforts of the general committee. The following officers wore elected for the ensuing year: President, John E. Lonlg; vice president, E. E. Fry; recording secretary, George S.

McCrone; financial secretary, William W. Britseh; treasurer, William C. McFarland; sergeant at arms, E. M. Ix)ngenecker; trustees, C.

H. Hoffman. J. M. Dailey and F.

E. El ser; delegates to State convention, George A. Tippett, Harry E. Speas, William E. Casell, William C.

McFarland and William W. Britseh. prefers iusrand to request Mrs. Anderson Renounces 11110,000 Irf ft Her Hy Father. Norrlstown, Feb.

27. Rather than give up her husband, Mrs. Robert Anderson lias made ber renunciation In tho court house hero of $40,000 left her In her father's will. Mrs. Anderson, who was Miss Mar garet J.

Prlsser. daughter of the late John o. Truer, hotelkecpor at Schwenksvllle, married Anderson two years r.go against the wishes of both her father and mother. Prlzer died recently and In his wilt, which was aumuipu to prouaio jesioraay auer noon, bequeathed one half of his estate to his daughter upon tho condition that she promise never to II vo with her husband after tho money was received. Mrs.

Anderson appeared In court and announced that oho would "stick to her husbund." TO EXAMINE CAPITOL Hy Associated Press. Little Rock, Feb. 27. In an effort to nettle tho controversy as to whether tho work on the State Capitol under rnsntructlon hag thus fur bt en properly done government engineers, recommended respectively hy the Treasury and War Department, will examine tho building, tho examination to begin next week. (.

E. CIIOIIl WILL FIX The Harrisburg Christ lun Endeavor Union Choir will meet Ttieitday even Ing, March 2, for rehearsal, Market Square Presbyterian Church lecture room. There will ho special music by the girls' quartet of Pino Street Christian Endeavor Hoelety; Margaret Rspp, Annlo MrKelvey, Ruth Hoover and Bessie Hellers. Recitation by Kchrcnier and violin selec Hon by J. R.

Henry, HOME FROM CHICAGO City Hiiiierlnli'iidetit F. IC Downn returned yesterday from Chicago, inhere he attended the annual meet Inn of the tirpartment of Puperln tw AffcOr ntloii, He reuortcd I motl la terentlng meeting. Million Christian Men Are Enlisted XEW COXFEREXCE FORMED PITTSBURG. AT Sixteen Trotestant Organizations At Pittsburg Church Gathering. Pittsburg, Feb.

27. Thirty officials of sixteen national Protestant laity organizations, representating.a membership of more than 1,000,000 men, met here and organized the Interbro therhood Conference. It was decided to co operate with the Laymen's Missionary Movement and the Young Men's Christian Association in the culmination of a national series of meetings to be held by the Laymen's Missionary Move ment. SQUARE DEAL SURE Speaker Cox Gives Mr. Fair ARSuranccs On Local Option Bill Speaker Cox hns given assurances to representative Fair, sponsor for the local option bill, that tlio "square deal" policy which lias marked the attitude of tlio leaders of the Legislature toward local option would be maintained until tho final vote on the The Fair which in to bo reported out of the Law and Ordr Committee to the House on Monday night.

Is to be allowed to take Its natural course through the three readings, and no attempt to "railroad" it to prevent a full and free vote on third reading will be tolerated. After a conference with the Speaker, Mr. Fair said: "Tho Speaker that each side prepare a program of speeches, desig nating four or five members to speak on the bill. Tho Speaker has agreed to recognize these speakers for both sides, so that no motion might be Interposed to drop from tho calendar or postpone indefinitely. "This is satisfactory to us.

"We nave no desire to delay matters, but wo will not be ready to go to a vote next week. We will agree, however, to a special order for the local option bill at anv time during the week of March S. I am willing to have the bill read the first tlmo next Monday night, provided it is agreed that no effort will bo made to force It to third reading on Wednesday, as many of the members will leave early on Wednesday for tho lnaugum tlon, and besides our speakers will not be ready. "I will take up with Speaker Cox the matter of having tho bill taken up section by section on second reading, so that members who desire to offer amendments may do so. 1 understand there Is some opposition to the section continuing the present prohibition laws as applying to cjtntn localities, and.

mlinfntu nnilij: this. "I expect to open the discussion on final passage, and the other speakers for the bill probably will bo Mr. Alter, of Allegheny; Mr. Ammerman, of Montour; Air. Ailnian, of Juniata, and Mr.

Meyer, of Centre. "I will not call the bill up on second reading next week, and I do not believe Speaker Cox will permit anyone else to do so, as it is customary to refrain from considering a bill on second reading unless It Is called up by tho member presenting It." "DON'T SPIT LEAGUE" Novel Organization Formed For Scrv Ico In Campaign Against White Plague. Hy Associated Press. Pcnsacola. Feb.

27. "Dont spit when not necessary; spit carefully when you do spit, and try to make each spit th'o last spit." This Is tho slogan of tho "Don't Spit League" being organized among the army and navy forces at the navy i yard and fort at this place as a result of the "ninety day campaign" being conducted by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Every Tub Stands On Its Own Bottom. And does every town. If tho bottom of thin town drop out, wlmt arc fctilng to aland on? And th bottom will drop out If we fall to stand together and work leather for th good of th common! ty m.volf, yourself and tho other fe.

low. 1 In order lo build to tht top, inert muat bo a solid bottom Homeless Boy Falls Into A Good Fortune Work, New Clothes and Home for Badly Treated Lad PROMISES HE WILL "MAKE GOOD" S. Weakley and Col. Chas. Duffy Are His Benefactors Thursday Lodged in jail; homeless.

Friday Dined and lodged at the Windsor Hotel. Friday Dined at the Ix)chiel Hotel; given a new home on the farm of Col. Charles Duffy, in Cumberland county, where he hopes to make good That is a brief history of the life of John Elliott, aged 17, a runaway boy, who landed hungry and homeless in Harrisburg on Thursday and begged the police to help him. His rapid rise from beggary is the result of an item in The Telegraph telling his misfortune, and of the kind hearted efforts of C. S.

Weakley to better the boy's condition. He didn't rest a minute after reading of the lad's misfortune until he had procured a good home for him, with the chance of schooling. Young Elliott came hero Thursday and asked the police department for a place to lodge. He was sent to jail. He said his stepmother made life miserable for lilni, and that his father even turned against him and told things that caused him to lose his employment.

He decided after many trials to go away and eke out his own livelihood. He was honest in all he said and expressed a desire to be allowed to go to some Institution where he might learn a trade or be given work on a farm. Mr. Weakley read of the boy's hard luck in The Telegrahp and then went after the lad. Last evening Mr.

Weakley had the boy put through a cleaning process, and later fitted him up in about everything a boy needs In the way of clothing, etc. Today the lad dined at the I Intel, and this afternoon was taken to the Duffy farm across the river where he will in his own words, "Show to the people who have been good to him that he was worth taking care of." The boy will have employment as long as he does hat is right, and an effort will be made to prevent his being takeu away. NO LICENSE FOR PLOVD Court Refuses Applicntioii for Huthcr ford Heights Inn. The application of Fletcher w. Ployd for a liquor license at his hotel at Rutherford Heights hns been refused by Judge McCarrcll.

The np llcotion was heard on last Friday at the annual session of the liquor court. A similar application was made last year and refused. Thin year tho condition was unchanged except that it was discovered that beer was sold to the track hands working for the I Reading railroad there. The ployd application was the only one heard on Friday. (JOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE Firot Sentence Under New Second Ofl'cDsc Law Of New York.

New York, Feb. 27. For tho first time the history of the criminal courts of New York a burglar was sentenced to life ImprUonmeut. The sentence was Imposed upon Samuel Goodman, alias Goldberg, 25 yearB old, convicted of burglary In the first degree a second offense. The court had no alternative under the new law thun to Impose tho life sentence.

Goodman was convicted before Judue Mulquccti on h's second trial. Ills first trial, before Judge Roilsky, resulted In disagreement. II" was charged with tho commission of burglary on September ao. 1 at tho homo of Charles E. Ualley, in this city.

Judge Mulqueen said that ho did not think the circumstances warranted a heavier sentence than twenty yen re for tho young criminal. At the end of that time the tnigo sold ho would recommend pardon. JOSEPH HTROIIMAN KILLED Joseph Btrohman, owner of the Ftrohman quarries near Hwatnrii station, was no fatally Injured at noon ycMtorday In an accident at tho quar rle that ho died last night at the Harrisburg Hospital at o'clock. A cur load of stone became unhooked and ran wild down the track striking Strohmon with torrlfk force. He was taken to tho hospital about 4 o'clock.

1U LOT FOIt CIH RCH At a meeting Thursduy of the Market Street Baptist congregation, It was decided to purchase the lot at Fifteenth and Market streets and to erect a church. The ofllcera will Im mediately begin to form tho congrcua tloti. WARSIUI'sTn CENTRAL AMERICA Washington. Feb, 27. Because of reports of tineuHlneim In Central America, growing out of Important tiillllary activity In Nicaragua, the iinlo Department, hits nuked that one or more naval vcuuli bo bunt to the wcit toast.

Eastmere Adjudged To Depart of City JUDGE KUNKEL HANDED DOWN PIXAL DECREE TODAY. Question Of What Ward New District Is To Be Not Decided By The Court. The final decree and order, in the annexation of that portion of Swa tara township known as the Eastmere district was handed dow'r. at noon today by Judge Kunkel. The decree does not say what precinct or ward the district shall be.

After stating the result of the election the decree simply says that the district is hereby annexed. Senator John E. Fox, attorney for the petitioners for annexation, when asked about tho matter today said that he did not know whether the newly annexed district would bo a separate ward of the city or would be added as a precinct to Eome ward already existing, and that he had not looked into the matter of how the question would be settled, his work ending with tho final decree today. INSULTED THE N. G.

P. As Result llegnlar Army Officer Faces Military Court; Gettysburg Encampment Incident. By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Feb. 27.

Captain Thomas M. Corcoran, formerly commander of Troop Thirteenth United States Cavalry, was placed on trial here today before a court martial on charges growing out of disputes between the men of his command and Pennsylvania National Guardsmen during the encampment of the Guard at Gettysburg last summer. Captain Corcoran is also charged with having discourteously treated an officer of the State Militia. During the encampment, it is said, members of the troop of the Thlr feenth Cavalry, which was stationed at Gettysburg, refused to obey the provost guard of the citizen soldiers. Under army regulations, the officer in command is responsible for the conduct of his men, and the matter was brought to the attention of the War Department.

IN JAIL; CRIES FOR BABY Mrs. Teal Collapses After Year Sen tence for Subornation of Perjury In (Jould Divorce Case. New York, Feb. 27. Without a tear or a sound Mrs.

Margaret Teal, wife of Ben Teal, the stage manager, heard the foreman of her jury pronounce her guilty of subornation of perjury in General Sessions. Still, mute and cold, she stood while Judge Foster sentenced her to serve a year in the penitentiary. Hut once outside the courtroom the young woman's nerves snapped under the strain. Screaming and tearing at her long! black hair, she was carried across the Bridge of Sigh, to her cell in the i Tombs, where for hours she lay on her face, moaning that her sixteen montbs old cMld would die without her, and that she could not live without the child. SCHOOLING IN CUBA Attendance Hits Inrrentd Over One Hundred Per cent.

Willi Gimm! Results. Wv A.sncic.ted Press. Washington, Feb. 27. Nearly 75 per cent, of the population of Cuba at least ten years of age can rend, tho nercentaco in the large cities be ing 82.fi, and in the rest of the Island 1 ,1 1 I 47.1.

according to figures obtained ln the census recently taken. This census shows that In 1907 utmost one third of the children were attending school ns compared with less than one sixth In CREAMERY COMPANY 0MING I. F. Rolirer Son Conduct Sale Which FMuhlihlicN Large Coin cm Here. The East Berlin Creamery Company will establish a wholesale" butter and egg depot In this city In the near future.

It will be locnted at No. 112 South Second street. Tho property which they have purchased has 11 frontage of 34 feet on Second street, and 11 depth on Mulberry street of 49 feet. It wus formerly owned by the Mary E. Vaughn estuto, nnd win Kold through J.

F. Rohrer Son to I. N. llersliey, of Dcrry. Tho building will be remodeled 011 the first floor, where tho depot will be Installed.

The upper lloors will bo arranged for light ninnitfucturlng purposes. TO REGl LATE HAGGAGH Hy Assueioted I'test, Washington. Feb. Representa tive Coudrey, of Missouri, think that the government should regulate tho carrying of baggage by tho railroads and he ha Introduced a bill requiring railroad companies to carry 150 pounds of baggage for every adult passenger. ItlOTINd IV PORTl'GAL Hy Asot tiled Press.

Lisbon, Friday, Feb. 2(1, via tlio Frontier. Tho carnival celebrations hebl In Lisbon this week resulted In serious rioting and a number of encounters with the pollen during which numerous people were more or less injured and about 200 arrest muiio. NO pl'Ll'IT CHANGES LIKELY While the iiiinouneeuient of appointment to the Flitted Evangelical churches of Hnrrlidiurg and vicinity will not be made until some time next week. It I believed no change will bu uittdo In Ilia local pulpiU.

1 I I I Two Trials For Murder This Term William Red and Lottie Hammaker to Face Jury In Three Weeks PROSECUTION STARTS MONDAY, MARCH 15 District Attorney Weiss and Assistant Stroup Will Conduct Cases Both of the murder trials schedule ed for the March term of Quarter Sessions Court will be disposed of on the week commencing March 13. These trials have been postponed through two quarter session terms, both being originally on the trial list for last September. Luka Zareovic was also listed for that time. Zare ovic's case was disposed of last term but the case of May Harvey and tho retrial took up so much time that It was necessary to hold the murder trials over. District Attorney John Fox Weiss said this morning that both murder trials would undoubtedly be disposed of this term.

William Red, who mur dered a fellow workman at the Wal tonville quarries last August will be prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Michael E. Stroup. Lottie Hammaker, accused of the murder of her infant child will be prosecuted by Mr. Weiss, himself. It is the intention of tho district attorney to start one of the murder trials the first thing Monday morning.

Just which one he has not yet decided, but he expects it to be William Red. Both defendants have been languishing in the Dauphin county jail since the middle of last summer, aud it will be with relief, for them, that their trial will come this term. The warden at the prison has had little trouble with either, as both are model prisoners. STATE BOARD OF TRADE Court Orders Names To lie Added To Tile Record. Judge McCarrcll this morning handed down an opinion in the case of the Central Printing and Publishing Company vs.

the Pennsylvania State Hoard of Trade and S. M. Williams. The opinion was on a ruin tn show cause why the names of E. Z.

Gross, C. A. Geesy et trading and doing business as the Pennsylvania State Board of Trade, should not bo added to the record. The action was in assumpsit. At that time the Pennsylvania State Board of Trade was thought by tho plaintiff to be nn Incorporated body, but since then It discovered it was not, so the request was made to have the record changed ami summons tho individual defendants to appear.

The court granted the request In tho opinion this morning. SUFFRAGETTE MARTYRS Welcomed By Compatriots Iflcr Having Spent Month In An English Pv Presi. London, 27. The woman iinf fraud Ists gathered In force this morning outside of llollowny Jail to witness the discharge of three of their tiumbT who had just completed one month's Imprisonment for trying to Interview premier Asquilli. In spite of tho fat that snow was falling they formed In 11 procession and marched to Hnlborn, whero ti bri nk last of welcomo was given for the "martyri." BALTIMORE PLANT IICRNS SwIfi'tV.

Company SuMnin Loss of $130,000. hy Associated Prist. Chicago, Feb. 27, Tho bntterln plant and storage liouso of Swift Company In tho atoclc yards was destroyed by lire today. Tho loss Is estimated at lir.O.OUO.

Oilier buildings In thn yards went threatened before tho lire could ba controlled. AGREES ON REPORT Hy Associated Press. Washington. Feb. 27.

Still unabU to agree with the President lit hi recommendation for charging for tho water power of nitvlguLlo at ream, th sub commit ten of tlio House Coin mitten on Interstate and Foreign Com mercu ha agreed upon a final report. Ml'RDEREI) AND ItORRER Hy Associated Press. Plttsbur.g,. Feb. 2J.

The hodle of two men wero found early today at Grnl.town, Westmoreland county, near here, and apparently both of them hud been murdered and robbed. Two empty pay envelope wero found beside tho bodies. WKtTIIKH FOItECAIT. Dy AisntMtd Prut. MniililnaOin.

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