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WAR GLOUDS VANISHING No Crisis Lik_ely—to—Result From the Ba!ithSuuatmn SERVIA BECOMES PAGIFIED London, England. — Belgrade, the storm center in the present Balkan situation, has quieted down. After a long secret session, the national as _sembly has taken no definite action ~ with regard to making war upon Aus-| tria-Hungary. The city itself has qui eted down, the people apparently real ifiing that war wou(id mean the de-‘ struction of Servian nationality. ‘ A dispatch from Gibraltar says that the British Atlantic fleet of six bat tleships is making ready to sail for the east and the destination probably is Malta, from which place the British Mediterranean fleet sailed a few days ago for the Aegean sea. Belgrade, Servia, — After a secret ‘session lasting for more than twenty four hours, the national assembly ad journed without having arrived at any decisicn in regard to its action! against Austria-Hungary. ‘ The meeting was a very stormy one, and was interrupted by various re cesses, War was demanded with Aus tria-Hungary, but the leaders of the war faction cooled down after Foreign Minister Milovxanoviecs had made a statement -in which he said that war was impossible, Thus, for the moment, the doing point in the Balkan crisis is passed, and Servia is expected to content her self temporarily by instituting a boy cot! against Austria-Hungary com merce in the way of revenge. Demenstration in the streets are be coming less numerous and less seri ous, and apparently the people are be ginning tc realize that war would mean the annihilation of Servia. Constantinople, Turkey.—The porte has received replies from Great Brit ain, France, Italy and Russia, all fa yverable to the assembling of a Euro pean conference,.and it is expected that Germany also will acquiesce in this, Kimil Pasha, the grand vizier, in a conversation with the Servian minis ter, sirongly advised prudence and moderation on the part of Servia. Pemonstrations in protest against the Austro-Hungarian movement continue to be held in the large towns through out Turkey, 20,000 people gathering at Adrianople for this purpose. AERONAUTS FALL 2,000 FEET. Wonderfu! Escape of American Bal locnists from Death at Berlin. Berlin, Germany.—The international ballon race, which started from the suburb of Scmargendorf, was the oc easion of a thrilling accident, two ‘American aeronauts having a miracu lous escape from death. The Ameri can balloon Congueror, the only Amer iean built craft in the contest, having on board A Holland Forbes and Au - gustus Post, less than two minutes af ter the siart burst at an altitude of 4,000 feet, . For 2,000 feet it shot down like a bullet, and then the torn silk bag as sumed the shape of a parachute, thus checking the rapidity of the descent. Coming clcse to the earth, however, the basket smashed into the roof of a house, but the two-men escaped with but slight injuries. RURAL LETTER CARRIERS Paul L, Lindsay of Tucker, Ga., lis ; Elected President, Omaha, Neb.—The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association elected the following officers for the ensuing year: G‘President—Paul L. Lindsay, Tucker, a. Vice President—Elias Frey, Pendle ton, Ind. Secretary—P. E .Cull, Concord, Mass. - Treasurer-—J. D. Williams, Renfrow, a. Executive Committee—J. H. John scn, New Hampshire; L. T. Langer, Missouri; T. E. Wicker, South Caro lina, BANK GPENS IN MANILA. Real Estate and Harvested Crops to Taken as Collateral, Manila, P. 1. — The Agricultural Bank, founded by the government,with a capital of 1,000,000 pesos, has begun operations, Secretary of Finance O. R. Araneta is president of the bank, and Insular Treasurer F. Abrangan, its manager, Real estate and harvested crops are the only collateral which will be accepted by the bank, In terest will be paid at the rate of 10 per cent. The first loan was made(,tfio’ an American farmer of Tarlae -« TRAW FALLS THROUGH-BRIDGE:” P il i ipl ot A Engineg sticks to Pdst. and , Goes - #own With : Lacomotive. Selma, Ala~Ap. extra“freight train on the Southefh railway -en route from Selma to Mobile“ran into the _ftg,'elr.'giraw of theé bridge across the "Tombigbee-river at Jackson, Ala. The engine and eight cars went into the “river, the engineer, Frank Kelley, of Mobile, going down at his post. The rémainder ‘of the train and caboose, ;Btopped on the brink of the bridge, This is the second engine to have gone off this bridge in the last eight or ten years. Preparations were be ing made to raise the first one to go in and now both will be taken from the river in the same task, NATIONAL BANK BISTRICTS. Examiners to Be Stationed in Various Cities, Washington, D, C.—Comptroller of the Currency Murray has announced that he would put into immediate ac tlon a plan for the formation of eleven districts of national bank ex aminers, with a chairman-examiner in charge, at each of the following cities Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Nashville, Chicago, Minne apolis, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Den ‘ver, and San Francisco, - LATENEWS NOTES, .. . General. * * "7t -all The people on the Island of Crete, stirred by the events in southeastern Europe, the independence of Bulgaria, and the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria, have arisen and proclaimed a union with Greece. For ten hours Mrs. William Weiss of Vriesland, Michigan, stood up to her neck in water in a cistern to save a 2-year-old boy. Mrs. Weiss saw the baby, a child of a neighbor, fall into the cistern, She instantly plunged af ter him and finding him at the bottom, held him above the water. She call ed for help, but the cistern is ten feet deep and no one heard her for over ten hours, when she was rescued in a fainting condition, She is serious ly ill from the exposure, but it is thought that she will recover. The baby was uninjured. _ The St. Louis Times has given pub licity to the following announcement: The St. Louis Times hereby offers a prize of SI,OOO to the aviator who will first fly in a heavier than air machine (continuous flight) from St. Louis to Chicago or from St. Louis to Kan sas City. This offer holds good for one year, from November 1, 1908, sub: ject to cenditions. A mighty Japanese fleet of twenty nine ships is now assembling at Yo kohoma and has been designated by the mikado as the welcoming escort to the American fleet. i The city council of Chicago passed an-ordinance establishing a new hol iday in Chicago—October 12—“ Colu mbus day.” The ordinance pravides for the clasing of all municipal offices on that day except fire, police and health departments, in honor of the discov ery of America. The council’s action was taken upon petition of the Knights of Columbus. | As the result of a collision between a yard engine and a special freight train on the Grand Trunk road, at Brantford, Ont., three trainmen were killed and two injured. The trial has begun in St. Peters burg, Russia, of a band of swindlers who by means of forged documents were successful in securing the sav ings of a number of Russian sailors who ‘perished in the battle of the Sea of Japan., Among the criminals are several officials attached to one of the ministries, Improvement in export trade in New Orleans is indicated in the. is sue of the monthly report of the grain inspection department of the board of trade,, For September, 1908, wheat exports were 90,000 bushels 1n excess of the same month last year. Corn exports fell slightly under the 1907 figures, DeWolf Hopper, the comedian, sus tained a bad fall while appearing on the stage of a Syracuse, N. Y., the ater which rendered him uneonscious and necessitated the dismissal of the audience. The accident was due to the slipping of*a buckle of a Dbelt about his waist, attached to a wire by which he was suspended in the air. An investigation of the reports that thousands of school children in Chica go are underfed has been ordered by the city council. The committee on schools was instructed to inquire into .the gituation and recommend meas ‘ures of relief. : : ¢ The new Mississippk law penalizing .common carriers for the remaval of ‘suits originating in state courts to the federal courts, gfias been declared un constitutional by Judge Wood, of the chancery court, in ouster proceedings against the Louisville and Nashville railroad, A Jones, bookkeeper in the depart ment of accounts at the Pensacola navy yard, who was shot four weeks ago by R. J. Owens, a prominent young man of the city, died in the government hospital in that city. Ow ens, as scon as he learned of the death, surrendered to the sheriff. Robbers committed a revolting crime in the village of Slobodze, ‘Russia. They entered the house of a Jewish family named Cohen and kill ed twelve persons in their efforts to get away with a small amount of loot. The murderers were arrested, ' Washington. The wisdom of the navy depart ment’s order for Rear Admiral Sperry not to permit shore liberty to the men of the fleet while cheolera is prevalent in Manila is commended by prominent civil and military authorities at Ma nila. Representative Clark of Florida has complained to President Roosevelt of ithe alleged political activity of two federal officeholders in Florida, and ‘he asked the president if it was in ‘accord with his views, The men com ‘plained of are Udited States District Attorney Cheney and - Postmaster O’Neal at _Orlando, Fla. He said both ‘were actively engaged in traveling over. Florida making speeches for the rgpublican. ticket and for themselves. "Cg,eney was nominated for governor Fand O’'Neal for congress. - The civil service commission has issued a statement announcing that ‘Paul W, Cox, a substitute clerk in the ‘Robinson, 111., postoffice, has been re moved from office and J. B. Thomas, clerk in the Orangeburg, 8. C., post office, severely reprimanded and re ‘duced in salary from S9OO to SBOO a year, beginning last Thursday, both !because of pernicious political activ ity. Pension Commissioner Vespasion Warner brought to the white house a ‘large official envelope marked “per sonal,” which contained two crisp SSOO United States bonds and a draft for $l7O, the entire amount being ‘con science money” returned by an old pensioner. The money will be placed with the treasury department in the “conscience fund.” J. Clayton Erb, captain and regi mental quartermaster of the Third regiment, national guard of Pennsyl vania, was shot and killed at his sum mer home near Village Green, Penn. His sister-in-law, Mras, Cathérine Beis el, is under arrest, charged with the murder, The woman admits that she ‘did the shooting during a family quar ‘rel. Captain Erb, who was private secretary to Israel W. Durham, polit ical leacder of Philadelphia, was one of the best known men in political circles in that city. -‘ - ;. ‘ ‘E'«;Nq | A LW 1] I NUTLD . e po T 1 President Endorses Objécts of Southern € )mmercial Congress.t ADMINSTRATION 10 ASSIST ol Secretary of War Wright wm'mwl Delegates on Influence of Panama Ca nal on Industrial Developments. | Washingtoen, D. €. — President Rocsevelt has promised his -pemdon%]‘t ¢o-opergtion, and that of the depart ments of the government in the ob- Jjtets gought by the Southern Commer cial Congress, which will meet in Waslingfon in the first week in De cember. 'The president expressed his warm approval of the plans of the body, and officially endorsed the proj ect of making the south and the peo ple of the country generally more fully acquainted with the resowrces, progress and commercial advantages of the southern states. 3 The president directed a eabinet of ficer to represent the administration before the congress and make an ad d.ress, and stated to the representa tives of the congress that the faeili ties of the departments, in the way of charters, data and statistics should be free to the convention, ; All this was brought about in th: course of two interviews between tm committee appointed by the Southern Commercial Congress and the presi dent at the white house. The rpré ident gave nearly an hour of time t 0 listening to the plans and objects of the congress, as presented by the com mittee, and then gave expression to his views as stated. i The committee is composed of G. Grosvenor Dawes of Alabama, John A. Betjeman of Georgia and %dwm s Quarles of Virginia. This committ \ represents forty commercial bedies es the south, each of which will send several representatives to the Wash ington meeting. & s J The members of the committee first called upon Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and b.bot Secretary Straus assured the commit tee of his personal sympathy in the movement, and promised his CO‘OD% ation and that of the bureaus of his department in furthering the ends of the congress. o The committee then saw the presi dent, who, after talking with them for a few minutes, requested them to call upon the secretary of war and gsgfi him to accompany them to the white house. The president and Secretary Wright then went into the subject in detail, and the president asked Secre: tary Wright te represent the admin istration at the congress and addmg-' the delegates on the influence of the Panama canal en the industrial devel iopment of the nation, . . BATTLE ATOP HIGH TOWER., Crazy Man Prevented from Jumping Off Williamsburg Bridge. . New York City.—At the top of the great iron tower at the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg bridge, a thrilling struggle took place while hundreds of persons looked on from’ below. An insane man, who hot’a.elud ed the tower watchman, climbed an iron stairway at the top of the tower, 533 feet above the East river, and was preparing for a leap into the river, when two policemen climbed up after him, The appearance of the policemen distracted the man from his purpose and he turned upon the bluecoats with a razor, The insane man rushed to -attack them, and then on the nar row footing of the dizzy height a ten minute battle teok place, which held all who witnessed it speechless with horror. Finally he was handcuffed and ta ken, still struggling, down the tower ladders, trying at every step to throw himself and his captors into space. At the eastern district hospital, where the prisoner was taken, he gave his mame as Joseph Kratz of Brooklyn. He was placed in a pad ded cell, i DEEP WATERWAY CONFERENGE. Lakes- to-Gulf Channel Meeting in Chicago Adopts Resoclutions. Chicago, Ill.—The adoption of res olutions declaring the opening of a deep channel way connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico ’to be an imperitive duty of the gen 'eral government, and this work to ibegin immediately and completed as |mo'n as possible, the selection of New | Orleans for the next convention and lre-electlon of old officers were the teatures of the closing session of Gulf ‘Deep Waterways Association, The resolutions adopted will be pre sented to both branches of congress by a committee of fifty, which Presi dent Kavanaugh was authorized to appoint, Arbitration Treaty Signed. Washiagton, D. C.—The proposed arbitration treaty between China and the United States was signed at the state department, Dr, Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister acting on behalf of China and Secretary Root on be half of the American government, Triple Alliance Planned. Hong Kong, China.—lt is learned here that the reason of Secretary Hart’s recent visit to England was to bring about an alliance between China, the United States and Great Britain to conserve the interests of the na tions in the far East, Aeronaut Near Death. Springfield, Mass.—By climbing in to the rigging of the balloon Boston, one thousand feet from the ground, Leo P. Stephens unfastened with his teeth the chord around the safety valve of the gas bag and thus prevent ed the possibility of the balloon burst ing in mid-air. Jt was the most excit ing incident connected with balloon ing in this city and thousands of per sons excitedly watched the aeromaut as he performed his perilous task, He alighted safely. \ ... GOLD HUNTERS RESCUED. Expadition Which Hoped to Find Sunk ‘ . en Treasure, Wrecked. 2% Baltimopes ¢Mg.—<NQt laden with' treasure from a l‘or?g\%st S%fiiép/gal« 'lzon, as they had fondly hoped; but t lves cast away and rescued in the nick of time from the wreck of the once gallant cup defender, the yacht Mayflower, a dozen men were landed here by the Norwegian schoon er Hippolyte Dumois, after having passed through the terrors of the re cent hurricane that swept wup the coast, The rescued men were: ~ G. H. Scull of Boston, R, A. Derby of New York, S. H. Noyes of Newport, R. 1.; Hayden Richardson of New York; S. S. Boylston of Skeneateles, N. Y.; Captain C, Harding, Edward Perham, mate; Joseph Higgins, stew ard; J. Neilson, C. F. Oursen, A. Speacher, E. PElouston, . This is the unromantic end of a venture, tinged with romance, which ‘had for its object the locating of a ‘Spanish vessel lost many years ago in the Carribbean seat, with much treasure aboard, Of the men rescued, tht first five are Harvard men and the leaders of the expedition. The others are members of the crew of the Mayflower, and it would seem the irony of fate that the vessel the party ‘went in search of had already been located by others, and all her discov ered ‘gold removed. { While much mystery has been thrown around the Mayflower expedi ‘tion, it is understood that the Spanish ‘vessel for which search was to have ‘been made went down about sixty ‘miles from Jamaica. Recent advices ‘are to the effect that a Jamaican ex pedition, headed by a son of Sir Ar ‘thur Blake, at one time governor of Jamaica, recently found the location 'of -a Spanish vessel, which, however, ' the divers discovered had been broken ‘up. They recavered a few gold pieces. - The fame of the yacht Mayflower ‘dates from 1856, when she defeated the British yacht Galatea, the then ' challenger for the American cup. She ‘was afterwards transferred into a two-masted schooner and fitted with an engine, - COLONEL STEWART RETIRED. ‘Roosevelt Loses No Time in Disposing 3 Exiled Army Officer, . Washington, D. C.—Colonel William . Stewart has been retired from act ive service in the army, as the re gult of President Roosevelt approving the report of the retiring board of army officers which found Colonel Stewart incapacitated for active ser vice because of disability. ' The following announcement of the ‘president’s action was posted at the .war department: . “Colonel Stewart has been retired ;tfrom ective service by the president, ‘upon finding of the retiring board that he is incapacitated for active service ‘on account of disability incident to the service, under the provisions of section 1251, revised statutes.” . The president’s action is final. - “I know why I have been retired from the army, and I know who is responsible for it, but 1 am still an army officer and cannot discuss that,” ‘declared Colonel Stewart, when he received formal notification by spe cial delivery letter from the war de ‘partment of President’s Roosevelt's. ‘ action in ordering his retirement. if FOREIGN MINE EXPORTS. : R ‘Party Touring the United States | - Reaches Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala.—The party of for eign mine experts now touring the United States to investigate condi tions with a view to lessening the number of explogions in mines, has arrived 'in Birmingham, and will spend several days visiting the mines of this district. _The party is in charge of J. A. Holmes of the fuel testing department of the United States government sur vey., It consists of Herr Carl Meiss nes, chief of the (German service; Vietor Watteyene, chief of the Bel ‘gian mining service, and Captain Ar thur Desbrough, chief expert of the ‘British explosives commission, | s ASK FOR $50,000,000. Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con gress Plans Improvement. ~ San Francisco, Cal.—At the conven tion of the Trans-Mississippi Commer ‘cial congress which is in session here a resolution was introduced by Mr. ‘Hart of Louisiana demanding an an ‘nual appropriation by congress of at }leaat $50,000,000 for the general im provement of rivers and harbors, in idorfllng the project for a deep water way from the lakes to the gulf and for the improvement of the Missouri and Arkansas rivers, and indorsing the comstruction of an intercoast ca 'nal from Mississippi to the Rio Grande, ratifying the utterances of the president on these subjects and favoring, if necessary, the creation of ‘u department of public works, DANCING GIRLS BARRED. Japan Will Also Keep Liquor from the American Tars, - Tokio, Japan-~-There js great re. joicing among the Christians in Ja pan because the authorities have de cided to eliminate dancing girls and lquor from the receptions planned for the American sailors when the battle ship fleet reaches Yokohama, Tho Young Men's Christian Association, the Seamen’s Mission, the English speaking churches and the mission school students are co-operating for the purpose of holding religious meet ings and furmishing guides who will not lead the visiting sailors into temp tation, FEARED CHOLERA INFECTION. People From Finland Refused pas sage to New York, Copenhagen —Passengers from Fin land were refused passage to New York on the Scandinavian-American line steamer Hellig Olav, on the ground that they might be infected with cholera. 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