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EPUBLIGiN.I iHTVinrA rvn CLOUDY TODAY FAIR TOMORROW DAILY WEEK'. SUNDAY EDITIONS JL1 1 TON FORTY FIRST YEAR. BOOM FOR UNCLE JOE Candidacy of Speaker Cannon for the Presidency Will Soon Be Announced. COMMITTEE IS HUSTLING WASHINGTON. Dec.

15. Immediately after the holiday recess of congress, the Joseph G. Cannon presidential boom will be launched in Just what peculiar form the launching will take is a matter which the promoters of the speaker's candidacy have rot definitely divulged, but it will be In such a manner as to let the whole country know that the statesman from Danville is a real, sure enough, never eay die candidate for the political Fhoes of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Up to the time congress convened there was not much to the Cannon boom but talk, but now it is to be a serious matter with a hustling committee actively at work in the interests of Mr.

Cannon. During the past month Mr. Cannon has with difficulty restrained his supporters from coming out into the open and pushing him to the front. There were two reasons a month ago why he want cA tr ho kpnt in the background. One was on account of the fact that there was so much talk of the renomination of the president, and the speaker did rot want to be regarded as an active candidate until the president should again declare himself against a third term.

The other reason was that he desired to have the matter of the appointment of the house committees out of the way before the real work in his behalf should be begun. The first of these reasons has been overcome by the president's reiteration of his election night statement that would not again be a candidate for the presidency, and the second will be obviated when congress shall reassemble after the holiday recess, for the committees will have been appointed before the adjournment. As soon as the committees are appointed, the Cannon men will feel free to act. Already they have been at work nuietly. An executive committee, of which Representative W'm.

B. McKin Icv. of Illinois, is chairman; has oeen appointed to handle the boom. Those who are associated witn Mr. Aicivin lev on the committee inchide Repre Fentatives Rodenberg.

Lorimer, Mc Kinnrv. Chapmain and Boutelle. It is conceded that Illinois will be solid for the speaker, and there is little doubt that Michigan, will follow suit. Already two delegates from the Eighth rtw trf mr can tnese aeie gates were illegally chosen, Represent Btive Fordney, who is one of them that another convention will be held and the same delegates rein structed for "Uncle Joe." He expects other Michigan districts to fall in line. Cannon organizations will be perfected in all parts of the country an? the executive committee will have its representatives at work in the speaker's behalf in all of the states where there is any chance of getting delegates.

It is said that the sentiment for Mr Cannon is over whelming among the Republican mem bership of the house. The plan of which It is alleged the Cannon boomers will work on is to have every congressman who has not a favorite son in his own state work to control the two delegates from his own district. It is considered highly probable that the Republican congressional committee will be brought to serve the" purposes of the Cannon boomers. Representative Sherman, of New York, who is the chairman of that organization, has Just been appointed a member of the house committee on rules to succeed General Grosvenor, and although he has always been very close to Speaker Cannon this connection will still more strongly cement their friendship. In fact, the entire committee is a Can non organization, it is said, at the present time and will be used very effectively in behalf of his candidacy, Representative McKinley, the chief boomer of the Cannon movement, the head of the Cannon executive committee, is also treasurer of the congressional committee.

Representative Lou denslager, who is also a power in the committee, as well as in New Jersey, which has no favorite son candidate, is also said to be extremely friendly to the Cannon boom. The same may he said of Representative Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the committee on appropriations. The Cannon men are highly pleased with the situation as it exists at present as regards their candidate, and declare that if "Uncle Joe" were ten years younger he would have a walkover. He is, however, remarkably strong and active, both In mind and body, and they declare that his age should not cut any figure in the race for the presidency. As the pre convention campaign progresses bad feeling is very likely to be developed between the friends of Mr.

Taft and those who have in charge the interests of the other candidates. Especially will this be so, it is pointed nut. if the administration should be so as to attempt to take an active part In dictating a choice to the succession And herein lies one danger to the Taft candidacy. Should the friends of the administration go very far in their zeal to carry out the wishes of the president in this respect It Is predicted that a row would be started In the party that would be distinctly Inimical to the interests of Mr? Taft. It might be that a coalition would be effected that would put Mr.

Taft completely out of the running, and the nomination of Knox, Cannon or Hughes or some dark horse, whose name has not prominently figured thus far In this connection. Some able politicians In Washington are advising candidates and their friends to keep an eye on Albany. A leader of the administration who lias traveled far and wide in the United States, picking political Information i for the benefit of men prominent in the party, said: "You would be amazed at the interest people are displaying in Governor Hughes and his administration of state affairs in New York. They look upon him as a man thoroughly on tb ir. hormonv with the prof aijuciic, of the day and i way fitted for further ad Add to this the beller so called 'interests' tha can be trusted to deal i'J with them, and you have a comb ition that would be difficult to beat.

With an organization behind him Governor Hughes would go into the convention not a favorite, but with fine chances of landing the nomination." BRYAN MAKES COMPLAINT. LINCOLN, Dec. 15. W. J.

Bryan has informally complained to the State Railway commission of the necessity of better facilities for the transfer of passengers between the Burlington depot and the Union depot at Omaha. Mr. Bryan suggested the construction of a subway between the two depots. WOMAN PURSUED BY BLACKMAILERS Mrs. Alexander Otis, of Rochester, Makes Complaint to the Police of Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 15. Mrs. Alexander Otis, the wife of a rich Rochester lawyer, is now occupying a fine suite at the Belvidere witn a mam. She came to Baltimore from isew lor, she says, to recover from a severe ordeal to which she was subjected.

Before leaving New York she says she turned over a letter of a rather serious nature to the police department of the metropolis, which came to her through the mail several days ago addressed to "MissMargaret Otis, of Boston," and a diligent search is now being made for the writers of the missive. "I have been made miserable," she said, "simply because I was mistaken for some one else. Another woman, of course. The blackmailers got after me soon after I arrived in Paris. With my maid, I sailed from New York in August and upon arriving in Paris I registered at the Regina.

A few days after I set foot on French soil letters were brought to my room and among them I noticed several addressed to a "Miss Margaret Otis." Mrs. Otis returned the letter, but others similarly addressed kept following her to the Murray Hill hotel in New York. One she opened by mistake and found it contained a warning to Miss Otis not to remain in New York lone and directions for leaving for Boston, where she would find "fripnds" awaiting her. This letter she turned over to the police. Mrs.

Otis is a handsome young ma tron of about thirty. She proposes to ALICE YARMOUTH TO SUE FOR DIVORCE Couple Have Not Been Living Together For a Year Breach is of Long Standing. PITTSBURG, Dec. 15. Information from Europe that Alice of Yarmouth was about to enter suit for divorce against Ijer titled husband, Earl of Yarmouth, has caused great wagging of tongues in Pittsburg.

It is openly asserted here that had it not been for the international scandal aroused by the conduct of Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbitt that the Earl of Yarmouth and Alice Thaw would have been divorced three years ago. At this time it is said preparations were under way for filing papers but then Harry and Evelyn came Into the limelight with such prominence that Mrs. William Thaw is said to have stated the family could not stand any more notoriety at this time and so nothing in the way of divorce proceedings were instituted. Pittsburg friends are advised that the pair have not been living together for one year; that Harry Thaw took great consolation from his sister when told in the Tombs by her that she and the earl had parted company. Harry is said to have declared a wish that he be cleared so that he can thrash Yarmouth just once.

ABE HUMMEL DYING. Collapsed on the Stairs While on the Way to His Room. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. While climbing the stairs to his room on the second floor of the hospital at Blackwell's Island on Saturday afternoon, Abraham Hummel, who is serving sentence for conspiracy in connection with the Dodge Morse divorce scandal, collapsed on the landing at the first floor and had to be carried to his room.

Dr. Matz, the resident physician on the Island, said today that Hummel was in a dying condition. Dr. Sigmund Tynberg, one of the visiting doctors at the penitentiary, was called in on Saturday. He prescribed a special course of treatment, but held out no hope of the patient's recovery.

H. Kaffenburgh, Hiimmel's nephew, was sent for and went immediately to the Island but was not allowed to see Hummel, as Dr. jnberg had forbidden it. Hummel has not been told of' his true condition as the doctors believe it would hasten his death. WALKER NOT APPREHENDED.

Missing Treasurer of New Britain Savings Bank is Still at Large, NEW YORK, Dec. 15. George S. Dougherty, superintendent of the Pink erton detective agency's New York branch, said tonight it was not true that William F. Walker, missing treasurer of the New Britain, sav ings hank, had been caught.

'Walker has not been captured In Lower California or anywhere else, so far as we know," Mr. Dougherty said. The Plnkertons haven't heard a blessed thing except what the news papers have said. I can't make it too emphatic. Walker has not been caught.

If he had been we should know it." READY OR MOXDAY SAILING 1. IIxtl at If Attrn A li 1 1 tin With Pur. ents, Wives and Sweethearts. FINAL GOOD BY TODAY I 1 FORT MONROE, Dec. 15.

The wives, the mothers, the daughters, the sisters and the sweethearts who are to see America's great battle fleet sail tomorrow on its 14,000 mile journey to the Paeiflc are withholding their emotions on this night of partings. Everybody Is trying to look cheerful, and everybody is succeeding fairly well. But down deep under the surface there is a general feeling ot depression a. the flood of women's tears that wl i aim hQQ 1 ft TV 1 I I sei win I flow before tomorrow sun nas make shame of the nasty little rain showers that fell today. On this last evening the big lobby of the Chamberlain hotel, the center of special interest and activity at Fortress Monroe, is crowded with officers of the navy and those who have come to say good by to them.

It is a gay scene. All the departing officers are in their gold laced uniforms and the women are dressed in their best. Every woman there apparently tried to make herself as fascinating as possible. Many of the officers and their women folk sat around in groups and talked fast so as to be able to say as much as possible before the long separation began. Sweet faced, gray haired mothers who had private opinions about the call of duty, held hands with their gold laced sailor boys and every wife, sister and daughter was turned into a hero worshipper and didn't care who knew.

And the sweethearts, dozens of them, were making the most of every moment and wondering if they were going to cry when' the youngsters in blue and gold went back to their ships for the long journey. Sailing orders were issued today. Every officer must be aboard his ship at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Shore liberty for the blue jackets and marines enflpd at 10 o'clock this morning. It was visiting day on the big armor clads and hundreds of people went out to them to share the last hospitalities, A choppy sea' and cold rain kept the timid on shore up to early afternoon, when things cleared up a bit and gave promise of fairly good weather for the farewell ceremonials.

men and women of the navy sat at luncheon tables In the fleet and a large number of these lingered for tea and then hurried back to the Chamberlain to uuh' aauure wnne una was going on out in the Roads, but tonight every officer who could get away came to Fortress Monroe to take part In the closing scenes on land. Many of the officers spent part of the day writing letters to those at home, but the women were busy with letter writing, too. One young wife wrote a note to her husband's ship with Instructions to deliver It to the husband on Christmas morning. When the young wife told other young wives and Incidentally imparted her Christmas scheme to a few sweethearts and some mothers there was a rush of women to the writing room. The idea took like wildfire.

Half the officers of the fleet have been impressed into service' as mail carriers and when Christmas morning arrives there will be happy surprises in cabins and wardrooms and steerages. If the copies of the papers in which this will be printed could possibly reach the fleet before Christmas the story would not now be told, for it is a strict secret and to give it away to those whom it is intended to affect Would be a cruel injustice to trusting women. Rear Admiral Evans, the commander in chief of the magnificent aggregation of battleships which will sail for the Pacific tomorrow, spent the day at the Chamberlain with his wife, his daughter, Mrs: Marsh, his son, Lieutenant Frank Taylor Evans, and some other kin folk. He was the center of interest in the hotel lobby. The members of his family seldom left his side, but they had to share their possession of the grim old sailor with many others who crowded around to shake hands and wish him good luck on his voyage.

This morning at muster the crews of every battleship listened to an order issued by Admiral Evans in which he appealed to the men to endeavor to uphold the honor and dignity of the United States when they were In foreign ports. Shore leave would be liberal, the orders said, but they must not be abused. If they were abused the whole enlisted force of the fleet would suffer curtailment of liberty. It would be necessary, the order explained, to restrict shore liberty in ports Infected with yellow fever or other infectious or contagious diseases, but on the whole the men would be given as large opportunity as possible to see the places where the fleet would stop. There Is much talk in the fleet about wholesale transfers of Japanese mess attendants from the fleet.

Some officers are angry over losing good servants, but on the whole there is little criticism of this action. It is well understood in the fleet that the official explanation that the Japanese have been detached because of their periods of enlistments will expire before the fleet reaches the Pacific coast and this would compel the government to go to heavy expense to transport them overland to the places In the east where they enlisted, is out of plumb with the facts. Of one hundred and two Japanese in the fleet, all except four have been sent to the receiving ship Franklin at the Norfolk navy yard. Two of these four are on the Connecticut, Admiral Evans' flagship, and the two others are on the Rhode Island and the Illinois. The Japanese sent ashore are Inclined to be angry.

Some of them state that they are going to lay their case before the Japanese consul In Norfolk, not with a definite suggestion but In the hope that he will be able to advise MORNING, DECEMBER them. They say that most of the Japanese did not care to make the long voyage with the fleet, but they think they were treated unfairly in being subjected to suspicion, for in that light they view their detachment. Officers and men are planning for a big Christmas at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the first stop of the fleet. There will be races afloat and races ashore and sports of all sorts. Today officers of the Virginia attired in old clothes manned a small boat and rowed over to the Louisiana, When they came alongside they "tossed oars," the navy form of challenge to a boat race.

"Come aboard," sang out the Louis iana. The Virginia people sent a spokesman to the deck of the other hattleshlD and when he left it had been arranged that there should be a race between officers of the two ves sels when the fleet got to Trinidad. Everything has been prepared for President Roosevelt's review of the fleet tomorrow. The yacht Mayflower with the president and his party on board will approach the fleet at 8 o'clock in the morning and while the gauteg are beJng fire(J wl proceed t0 negr Jhe center of the battle. Ll'ltlV ship formation, which will be in double column, eight ships in each column Then Admiral Evans and the other flag officers and all the captains will be rowed over to the Mayflower to pay their respects and say good by to the president.

When this ceremony is over the Mayflower will steam ahead and every vessel will up anchor and follow. At the Horse Shoe Shoals, three miles from here, the Mayflower will turn about and as each battleship passes the men will man the yards and the presidential salute will be fired. As the fleet disappears In the distance the Mayflower will turn her nose toward Washington and steam away. Admiral Evans said today that the fleet ought to be started on Its voyage by 10 o'clock. James R.

Garfield, secretary of the Interior, and Gifford Pinchot, chief forester of the agricultural department, who are among President Roosevelt's closest friends, visited the fleet today. They were guests of Captain Garber, of the Maine. A DENSE POPULATION FOR UNITED STATES At Present Rate of Growth This Country Will Reaoh 950,000,000 In 134 Years. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.

"With an Increase to our population by Immigration of per annum, which is less than the present rate, and the present rate of natural Increase the United States would reach the density of China in about four generations, or more particularly, in 184 years, at This interesting statement is made In the annual report of Frank S. Sar gent, commissioner general of immi gration, covering the fiscal year 1907, ended June 30 last. "Important recommendations looking to further amendment of the laws gov erning the admission of aliens are in corporated in Commissioner Sargent's reports. Among other recommenda tions made by him are the following "That legislation be adopted to check violations of the immigration laws by professed seamen. "That public health and marine hos pital surgeons be stationed at the principal foreign ports of embarka tion to examine all aliens applying for passage to the United States.

"That arrangements be made for placing on board a number of the large transatlantic liners female Inspectors, thoroughly qualified and equipped with a knowledge of foreign languages charged with the duty of intermingling with the female steerage passengers and making their acquaintance, the ob ject being thus to assist In preventing the importation of women for immoral purposes. "Tnat international conrerence on emigration and immigration for the holding of which provision is made in the new Immigration act be called at the earliest practicable date." In point of numbers, the fiscal year 1907 was the banner twelve month period in the history of the immigra tion service. Aliens to the number of 1,285,349 were admitted, as compared with 1,100,735 in 1906. The total amount of money brought Into the country by immigrants in the year was $25,59,000, or an average of almost $20 per person. Kurope contributed 1,199, 566 persons to the volume of immigration.

More than 40,000 came from Asia, among them 30,000 Japanese and 961 Chinese. It is estimated that from 1820 to 1907 more than 25,000,000 aliens landed at ports of the United States. The pro portions from each country during the entire period are as follows: United Kingdom, 30 per cent; Germany, 21 per cent; Scandinavia (Den marK, ana Sweden), 7 per cent; Italy, 10 per cent; Austria Hungary, 10 per cent; Russia, 8 per cent; France, 2 per cent; Switzerland, 1 per cent; countries not specified, 9 per cent. PKOFRSSOK CONTHERAS DF.AD. MEXICO CITY, Dec.

Advices from Juanajuato announce the death at his home there of Professor Juan L. Contreras, the most famous astronomer, geologist and meteorollglst Mexico has produced. He made a life study of seismic disturbances and their causes. He predicted many of the earthquakes in Mexico many days before they occurred. He gave warning of the last severe shock of earthquake which did much damage in Mexico City and In the state of Guerrero, fifteen days before the visitation took place.

MARINE) NEWS. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. S3: Lucania, Liverpool; LaLorraine, Havre; Arabic, Liverpool; Et. Paul, Southampton; Breslau, Bremen; Pennsylvania, Hamburg; Astoria, Glasgow; Mlnne tonka, London.

Arrived out from New York: SS: Statendam, at Rotterdam; Grosser Kur feurst at Bremen; Minnehaha at London; Oldenburg at Bremen; Bluecher at Plymouth. 16, 1907 CONDUCT WAS BRUTAL Sub Committee of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Charges Outrages Upon Indians. SECURED LAND BY FRAUD WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. In a special report to be made to the senate tomorrow by a sub committee of the senate committee on Indian affairs, composed of Senator Teller, chairman, and Senators Curtis, of Kansas, and LaFollette, of Wisconsin, the charge is made against what is known as the Chapman Grimes Conine people that "their conduct in their efforts to secure the valuable lands owned by the Mexican Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma was criminal and brutal in the extreme.

Outrages were shamelessly perpetrated by them and their conduct has never been equalled in the history of any dealings to secure lands from the American Indians." The sub committee has been investigating the matter for several months, taking evidence at Eagle Pass, Douglas, Shawnee, and in Washington. In explaining how false deeds were secured by the alleged grantees from the Indians, the committee makes the charge that the con spirators "had all the leading members of the tribe arrested and thrown Into jail." The charges also made are that names were forged to deeds; that Illegal marriages were procured to further the plans of the conspirators, and that outrages were committed upon Indian One of the men named in the report as being interested in the matter is Cash Cade, a prominent man in Republican politics in the territory. The committee recommends first that suits be brought to set aside all deeds that were fraudulent; second, that a special attorney be employed to have sole charge of the cases; third, that certain patents issue Immediately from the government to certain Indian allottees whose claims have heretofore been contested by the alleged conspirators. PRESIDENT OFF FOR UK VIEW. Washington, Dec.

15. President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Metcalf left Washington this afternoon for Hampton Roads, where the president will review the Atlantic fleet tomorrow as it starts on its cruise to the Pacific. They went aboard the Mayflower at the. Washington off shortly afterwards. With the president, besides Secretary Metcalf, are: Mrs.

Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Mrs. Metcalf, Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Newberry, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Brownson, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles, Commander and Mrs.

Sims, Miss Corinne Robinson and Miss Hag ner. The party will reach Hampton Roads early tomorrow morning. At 10 o'olock this morning the dispatch boat Dolphin left Washington for Hampton Roads with the 'congres slonal party aboard. It included Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, and Representatives Foss and Cousins, of Illinois; Thomas, of Ohio; Roberts, of Massachusetts; Loud, of Michigan; Bates, of Pennsylvania; Dawson, of Iowa; Padgett, of Tennessee; Kitchin, of North Carolina, and Gregg, of Texas. The party will return to Washington immediately after the review of the fleet, and will probably arrive late Monday night or Tuesday morning.

TO SELL' OLD MONITOR. Battle Scarred Canonlcus Saw Some Hard Fighting. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. The navy department will soon advertise for bids for the sale of the old Civil war monitor Canonicus, now at the Norfolk navy yard.

The Canonicus is the last single tur reted monitor of the Civil war period remaining in the navy. She was launched on August 1, 1863, at Boston, and was towed to the New York yard, where she was on April 25, 1864. Later she was taken to the vi cinity of Norfolk and saw some hard fighting in the last part of the Civil war. In the engagement at Fort Fisher she was struck thirty six times and her flag was shot away twice, but each time it was gallantly replaced. WOMAN BLOWN TO PIECES.

Explosion of Natural Gas in a Pitts burg Home. PITTSBURG, Dec. 15 Mrs. Charles Talsk, of 2041 Straubs Lane, was literally blown to pieces early this morning by an explosion of natural gas in her home. Her six children were injured more or less, all being thrown from their beds when the house was wrecked by the explosion.

Mrs. Talsk went into the front room of the home about 7 a. m. to light the gas stove, which was fed through a rubber hose. It would appear that the rubber hose had become disconnected in the night, allowing the gas to escape and All the room.

Mrs. Talsk struck a match, which caused the explosion. blowing out the entire front of the house. The woman was so badly mangled that she died shortly afterward. MOCK LYJTCHnrC KILLS BOY.

Strung Vp In Factory, Whirling Belt Tears OK Head and Arms. MEMPHIS, Dec. 16. Carrvintf out a mock lynching, Willis Gordon, a sixteen year oldi negro, was hoisted to a shafting at a local manufacturing concern by several companions. Before he could be released, his clothing caught In a belt and bis head and arms were severed from his shoulders.

Several of the participants In the affair, all of whom were negroes, were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter. MEAT EXPERTS FOR NAVY. President Determined There Shall Be No Embalmed Beef Scandals. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.

The president is determined there shall be no embalmed beef scandal in the navy, if foresight can prevent it, and has, therefore, taken steps to provide the navy with food experts of its own, whose duty it will be to make chemical analysis of the meats and other provisions purchased for the jackies. Three bright young naval officers have recently been detailed for a course of instruction in food analysis and chemistry under the tutelage of Dr. Harvey Wiley, chief food expert of the agricultural department. The naval officers will spend several months in studying the scientific testing of foods. When they get their diplomas as near experts from Dr.

Wiley the officers will thereafter be assigned to the work of analyzing samples of all meats and other foods purchased by the commissary department of their branch of the service. elopingmcoiplT are inder arrest Man Wanted in England cn Charge of Embezzlement, While Girl Will Be Deported. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. John Henry Parrott, who declares that he is an English engineer, arrived today aboard the Cunarder Lucania with a comely young woman, Miss Grace Lawrence, of 90 Brompton Road, London, with whom he is in love.

The pair occupied the same stateroom and came under assumed names as man and wife. At quarantine United States Deputy Mar shal Roberts boarded the Lucania and told Parrott that he was wanted in London for embezzlement. Parrott begged to differ with the deputy marshal as to the charge that had been made against him through the English foreign office. He said it was not embezzlement but an attempt to defraud and that he was not guilty. He said the affair hinged on the sale of an automobile.

He sold for Andrew Fletcher, a Scotch automobilist, a car for which he received $1,250. He says that the contract did not call for the delivery of the money to Mr. Fletcher until January 12, and that his arrest here Is due in part to the fact that he did not turn over the money imme diately after getting it. Another and more Important reason for his detention, he deolares, is that gome of the relatives of Miss Lawrence who is a ward in chancery, have de termlned to make trouble for him Eloping with a ward in chancery is a serious thing in England. Before leaving the ship for the Tombs Pferrott and Miss Lawrence had i i 1 If he was permitted to he would marry her tomorrow before a magistrate or a clergyman.

The girl will be taken to Ellis Island and doubtless will ordered deported. Then she will go back by the ship she came in as cabin passenger. 5 BODIES TAKEN FROM WRECKED SCHOONER Survivors of the Thomas W. Lawson Tell of the Terrible Weather Encountered. LONDON, Dec.

15. Five bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the seven masted1 American schoon er Thomas W. Lawson which capsized ana sank during the gale yesterday morning, while she was anchored off one of Scilly Islands. Two of the dead have not been identified. The others were Mark Sanson, cabin boy, of Brooklyn; Victor Hansell, of Phlladel phla and Seaman.

George Bolimke. W. Allen, the English sailor, belonging to the Lawson, who was picked! up un conscious near, the soene of the wreck, has since died. Before his death, he recovered con sclousness and gave an account of the disaster. After telling how the schooner had run into Broad Sound and anchored to escape the fury of the storm, he said that a tremendous squall at about 3 o'clock Sunday morn Ing, struck the schooner.

Before this time, the vessel was being breached by the sea, and most of the sailors had Deen washed overboard. The squall struck the Lawson broadside on and it came so suddenly that before she had time to begin to swim with It, It hove her down on her beam ends and prevented her from righting herself, The water poured Into her through every opening on deck, and she com pletely capsized before the survivors had time to launch a boat. Donkey Engineer E. L. Rowe, who was rescued! with Captain Dow from Hellweather Rocks, by a lifeboat, says tnat terrible weather had been ex perlenced for a month, and that all the schooner boats except one were car ried away.

He was in the water for two hours, clinging to a spar with a companion. He was washed off once by a heavy sea and became entangled in pieces of the rigging. He was almost strangled before he succeeded in releasing himself. During a lull in the storm he saw his companions being tossed about, and all being driven In the direction of the rocks. HEADACHE PILLS KILLED HER.

Young Girl Dies After Taking Two Left at Her Door. WORCESTER, Dec. 15. Annie McGuire, eighteen years old, is dead after having taken two headache pills that were left at the door of her home by a sample distributer. Medical Examiner Tobey and Dr.

Goodwin today are emphatic in their report that the headache pills caused a depression on the young woman's heart which brought oedema of the lungs, resulting in her quick death. The young woman went home suffer ing from a headache. She took two pills and retired. Soon she grew ill and died just before midnight The town Is much excited over her death because the pills were distributed broadcast and several of them have been used. PRICE TWO CENTS.

i REGIME OF POLITICS "The Silent Revolution in Our ro. litical System," Title of Addresi By W. Bourke Cockran. ONE CITIZEN'S POWER NEW YORK. Dec.

15. W. Bourke Cockran, prepared the way today in ani address before the People a Forum at New Rochelle, for his advocacy of somebody very like William Jennings Bryan, as candidate on a radical Dem ocratic ticket. Although Mr. Cock ran specifically stated that his address on "The 6ilent revolution in our po litical system," was to be viewed in none other than a non partisan light an echo from Nebraska reverberated through his discourse beyond the degree of concidence.

The meat of Mr. Coekran's remarks was that since the election of 1896, the same property interests that com bined at that time to combat free sil ver, have remained cohesive through the constantly Increasing power they have had) over the government and, that at present the phenomenon of a government higher than that of the federal constitution ruling beyond control confronts us. Mr. Cockran drew an analogy between Augustus Caesar, who ruled imperial Rome even under the shadow of a republic and several uncrowned Caesars of today who, he said) were allowing us to believe that we lived under a Republican style even while they usurped all the power. "I propose to deal with the tendencies In our political regime an I see them today," said Mr.

Cockran, "but I have no intention of touching upon political matters of a partisan nature or of suggesting remedial measures because by so doing I may seem to be partisan." The speaker referred at once to the recent panic and alluded to the fact that immediately after credit dropped, the banks and trust companies united for mutual benefit under stress, thereby throwing over for the minute the Instinct of business rivalry. "What I would call your attention to," continued Mr. Cockran, "is that instead of turning immediately to the government for assistance, the bankers and financiers turned to a private citizen. Insofar as the government took part in the efforts to stem the contingent upon the initial action of tide, it was a subordinate part and one contingent upon the initial action of this citizen and his adVisors. A peril greater than war or riot was met and actea upon by agencies entirely outside the machinery of government.

"The eyes of the city and in great measure of the whole world were turned for two or three nervous night upon the library of this citizen: The measures that were decided upon in that. man's library saved' the 'country from the depths of depression that no man has dared to measure in conjecture. "I grasp this incident as being one of the most portentous events in the last generation of the nation's history that a body of men entirely without the authority of government, whose personnel even we have never fully learned should have had the power to act finally and conclusively in a national disaster. 1896 there was a real issue before the people which was accepted as of transcendant Importance. Rightly or wrongly It was believed that property Interests were at stake and the property owners and those who hoped to be of the property class combined to win the election.

But out of this alliance grew a tendency, fostered by protective tariff, to utilize the government for special Interests until within the last ten years the control of this country has virtually passed into the hands of less than a dozen men. "I do not think that It Is open to contention that almost every agency of production and transportation In this country have now passed In the final instance into the hands of these few men, that they dominate all of our great financial Institutions and through them the credit of the country Itself. "As a result of this condition which has swiftly come to be the dominant influence in the country's business the greatest power In the country is resident not in the hands of government, but In the hands of these few men who hold all the lines of Industry and production. The form of the government remains the same but the substance is changed. "The people who now hold the power In their hands are as scrupulous as to the outward form of the government as was Caesar Augustus when he took the rule of Rome even while the shadow of the people's sovereignty remain ed.

A president still lives in Washington, a congress meets and passes laws. judges sit to Interpret them. Even the formulas of the constitution giving each citizen his rights remain nominal ly In force." QUARANTINE RAISED. HAVANA, Dec. 15 Governor Maroon has been informed from Washington that the quarantine at American ports against Cuba has been raised.

The news Is received with considerable enthusiasm by the people and by business Interests, particularly those dependent upon the tourist traffic. Governor Magoon made a vigorous protest to the authorities at Washington, against the continuance of the quarantine. WEATHER FORECAST. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.

For East ern Pennsylvania: Cloudy Monday. Tuesday fair; fresh westerly winds. Fer Western New Torki Snow and slightly colder Monday. Tuesday snow; fresh, northwesterly winds. For Western Pennsylvania Sllht now Monday.

Tuesday, partly clouiv: fresh northwesterly winds. Far Eastern New York: Ffttr on the coast, snew In thai interior Monday. Tuesday partly cloudy; Xrssa. couth. west 10 west wjnaa,.