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PAGE FOUR Summary of Ebeniis as They Happen Antwerp Strike Ends by Agreement. The Maritime Federation at Ant werp presented a proposition which was accepted by the striking dock la borer’s and others for an uncondi tional return to work, and the ap pointment of a mixed commission with powers to examine and determ ine upon the question of wages. Segal Indicted After Bank Crash. Adolph Segal, a promoter; Wil liam F. North, former treasurer, and H. S. Collingwood, former assistant treasurer of the Beal Estate Trust Company, Philadelphia, were indict ed on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy growing out of the col lapse of that institution last year. It is Charged that Segal obtained $5,300,000 from the bank by unlaw ful methods through Frank K. Kip ple, the president, who committed suicide. “Modernism Must Lead to Atheism.’’ The Asservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican, published Rome an encyclical on ‘‘ Modernism in the Faith.’’ It is really an elab oration of the syllabus published a few w’eeks ago. The encyclical sets forth that mod* ernism is a serious danger to trie church, refers in detail to the vari ous features of modernism, and con demns it as dangerous in philosophy, faith, theology, history, criticism and reform, and arrives at the conclusion that modernism is a synthesis of all heresy and must logically lead to atheism. The encyclical makes the follow ing provisions: First—The teaching of philosophy, positive thereology, etc., is to be car ried on in the church schools and uni versities, but in a Catholic spirit. Second —Modernists aie to be re moved from professorships and the direction of educational institutions. Third—The clergy and faithful are not to be allowed to read Modernist publications. Fourth —A committee on censor ship is to be established in every dio cese to pass upon the publications which the clergy and faithful shall be permitted to read. Fisth —The encyclical of the late Pope Leo XIII prohibiting the clergy from assuming the direction of pub lications without their bishop’s per mission, and providing for supervis ion of the work-of ecclesiastical writ ers, is confirmed. Sixth Ecclesiastical congresses, except on rare occasions, are pro hibited. Seventh —A council is to be con stituted in every diocese to combat modern arrors. His Child’s Body Placed on His Op erating Table. Pauline, the nine-year-old daughter of Dr. T. F. Reardon, was killed in Chestnut street, Springfield, Mass., by Dr. Charles P. Hooker’s automo bile. Without knowing the identity of the child, Dr. Hooker took in his arms the limp form and hastened to the office of the nearest physician. When Dr. Reardon opened the door WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. the child’s face was averted. Not until the lifeless body had been ten derly placed upon the operating ta ble for examination did Dr. Reardon learn that the child was his daughter. He placed his hand over the child’s heart. Action had ceased. Without an exclamation, Dr. Reardon sat down in the nearest chair in a state of col lapse. The child was returning from school, and ran directly into the au tomobile, which was not going at ex cessive speed. Rogers Need Not Appear in Court. Satisfied, he said, that it would be a il cruel and unjustifiable proceed ing” to force Henry H. Rogers, in his present condition, to appear for trial of the $50,000,000 action against him by Cadwallader M. Raymond, to recover royalties for the use of a secret process for refining petroleum, Judge Hammond, in the Supreme Court, after a long hearing at Bos ton, indefinitely continued the case. When the matter of Mr. Rogers’ physical condition came before Judge Hammond, on Thursday last, counsel asked for a continuance on the tes timony of Dr. Charles A. Pratt, of New Bedford, that it would be dan gerous for Mr. Rogers to appear in Court. An indefinite continuance was then practically agreed on, but counsel for Mr. Raymond later filed a motion to put the case back on the trial list for this fall. Dr. Pratt testified that the strain and close air of the court room would probably cause the invalid Standard Oil magnate to drop dead. Henry H. Rogers, Jr., and Irving H. BrougH ton, son-in-law of Rogers, testified that Mr. Rogers had.absolutely ab stained from work of every kind since he had been taken ill in July. Twenty-five Killed in Wreck. The mistake of a telegraph opera tor in copying, in a train order from his despatcher, the numeral “0” in stead of a “4,” or the error of the despatcher in transmitting the order, caused the sacrifice of twenty-five lives and serious injury to twenty seven others in an accident at West Canaan. N. H., on the Con cord Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. This is a list of the dead: Mrs. John Barrett, Manchester, N. H.; Miss Annie Barrett, Manchester, N. H.; Mrs. L. C. Blake, West Somer ville, Mass.; Mrs. Adolphe Boisevert, Concord, N. H.; Mi’s. E. T. Briggs, West Canaan, N. H.; Richard Clark son, Lebanon, N. H.; J. M. Condon, Bethel, Vt.; John G. Duncan, Bethel, Vt.; Arthur Freeman, Canaan, N. H.; Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke, Que.; infant child of Irving Gifford, Concord, N. H.; Miss Alvina Giron, Nashua, N. H.; Mrs. E. F. Griggs, West Lebanon, N. H.; Mrs. Joseph Lavoie, 92 Quebec street, Sherbrooke, Que.; Fred M. Phelps (or Phillips), Ochiltree, Texas; Augustine Royer, Manchester, N. H.; Timothy Shaugh nessey, Castle Bar, Que.; Mrs. Brid get Shaughnessey, Castle Bar, Que.; George L. Southwick, Worcester, Mass.; Miss Annie St. Pierre, Isle Verte, Que.; Mrs. M. E. Warren, Haverhill, Mass.; Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living in Massachusetts. The scene of the disaster was a heavy grade one mile east of West Canaan. The Quebec Express, bound to Boston, and a freight train of twenty-seven cars, met in the early mountain mists as both' trains were proceeding at their greatest speed. More than half the passengers in the first coach of the passenger train were either instantly killed or were so badly mangled that they had no chance for life. The other passen gers in that car, with a few excep tions, were badly maimed. Steel Trust Beaten in Bids by Small Plant. The Steel Trust has been beaten in competition with one of the smallest independent plants in the country, and has also been worsted by foreign interests on two contracts for the supply of iron and steel material re quired by, the Panama Canal Com mission. It has recently become known that for the construction of a steel bridge across the Chagres river, Pana ma, the lowest tender had been re ceived from the Penn Bridge Com pany, of Beaver’s Falls, Pa. This concern has no connection with the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Its output is only about 50 tons daily. The Penn Company’s bid was $59,- 000. The United States Steel Prod ucts’ Export Company, the export branch of the United States Steel Corporation, submitted a tender of $62,000. R. C. Hoffman & Co., of Baltimore, representing the Maryland Steel Company, and the receivers of Milliken Brothers, New York City, were also bidders. As regards deliv ery, which is to be April next, the terms of the Steel Trust and the Penn Company are virtually identical. More Letter Carriers. Additional letter carriers will be appointed on October 1, as follows: New York, 75; Brooklyn, 71; Pitts burg, 25; Detroit, 21; Milwaukee, 15; Newark, N. J., 10; and Baltimore, 9. Sternburg Must Quit Washington. There is deep regret over the re tirement of Baron Speck von Stern burg, the German ambassador, who will leave his post at Washington in November. His career in the diplo matic corps is brought to an end by a cancerous growth which has dis figured his face badly. Baron Sternburg was at attache of the German embassy when Mr.* Roose velt was Civil Service Commissioner. They were good friends, and it was through the influence of the Presi dent that the Baron was made an ambassador. The grandfather of the German am bassador was a cattle drover. Herr Speck followed his steers to Eng land and found a fortune in boef. The ambassador himself was born in England. Herr Speck took his money to Saxony, where he purchased the estate of Sternburg. He was made a knight, or chevalier, and devoted him self to collecting a fine gallery of pic- tures and to affairs. He was made a baron. His son, Speck von Sternburg, in heriting the ancestral millions and title, married the beautiful Miss Langham, of Kentucky. It was pure sentiment on his part, for the bride had no real fortune. Mexican Bandits Kill An American. George Rose, an American mining engineer, has been murdered and his wife has been shot by Mexican band its at Guanafuato. Mr. Rose, who was connected with the Mexican Min ing and Transportation Company, was a son of W. A. D. Rose, of Benton Harbor, Mich., and was thirty-four years old. He was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1896, and in 1900 was married to Miss Winifred McGrath, of Salt Lake City. Mrs. Rose will recover from her wound. Beef Trust Again Puts Up Prices. The Beef Trust has served notice on wholesale meat dealers that all meats, except pork, will be advanced three to four cents a pound in Chi cago. This increase comes on top of a suc cession of advances made during the year. The restaurants and hotels have an ticipated the raise by advancing roast beef and steaks 10 to 20 cents all around. The present retail price of beef is the higest within memory. This, too, in a city where the trust pays no freight on its product. Por terhouse steak is 28 and 30 cents a pound. Lamb is the same, and mut ton 22 cents. Not to be outdone, the milkmen have announced a 10 per cent in crease. General provision dealers say that canned goods, both vegetables and fruits, will cost the consumer from four to six cents more a can the com ing winter than they cost today. The pie fiend is to suffer, too. Wholesale prices on pies will be in creased as follows: Ten-cent pies, to 14 cents; 12-cent pies, to 16 cents; 14-cent pies to 18 cents. On hearing this news the restau rant keepers told their customers that they will get smaller pieces of pie for five cents, beginning next week. Pies now cut for counter trade into four pieces will in future be cut into six pieces. Parker Attacks the President. Alton B. Parker, of New York, former democratic candidate for president of the United States, and Samuel W. McCall, member of Con gress from Massachusetts, made the principal addresses at the “Consti tution Day” celebration at the James town Exposition. The ceremonies were in commemoration of the 120th anniversary of the adoption of the federal constitution by the Consti tutional Convention of 1787, over which George Washington presided. Judge Parker, , at his best and speaking with great force and earn estness, discussed the constitution, the division of powers under it among