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.. ft, II EE WAR SCARE ONLY TRICK. Current Events of Interest Gathered From tlie World at Large. General Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Lnglish Tories are bitter over then defeat and threaten reckless filibuster ing in parliament. The leading hotels of San Francisco will allow women to smoke in any part ot the building, the same as men. A boy at Salem, Ore., died of lockjaw but not the slightest evidence ot wfec tion could be found upon his body, -Magnetic brakes, operated by wire less, have been made entirely success ful on the Canadian Pacific railway. An aviator at Memphis, Tenn., reached an altitude of 9,364 feet, his aeroplane being coated with ice when he alighted. , Queen Liliuokalani of Honolulu now asks the territorial legislature for a lump sum of $200,000 in full settlement fornia of all claims against the United States, memorial i ir..i rines l Ul.iu J.IUIU uuutttu, ttaau., in m Shipbuilders and Steel Trust Want Big Orders. Washington. Back of the war scare caused by Secretary Dickinson's confi dential answer to the request of Con gressman McLaehlan of California is the activity of the shipbuilding interests and the steel trust as an active factor in the agitation. A; year ago corres pondents of Pacific. Coast papers were importuned by representatives of Pa cific Coast shipbuilding concerns to urge the need of a fleet of submarines and the enactment of a law to provide that during the next tea, years 50 sub marines be built on the Pacific Coast. This frank admission that the West ern shipbuilding interests were largely responsible for the agitation which at that time was carried on to alarm the West coast people, was made to me when I sought to ascertain why so sud denly patriots had discovered the so called defenseless position of the West coast. A meeting of some of the Pacific Coast; senators and representatives had been called and a dinner had been giv en, one of the results of which had been the appointment of a committee of members from Washington and Cali- to present to the president a embodying plans for subma- INDUSTRIAL DEVEIfffll OF THE STATE CONVENTION VOTES STATE AID $300,000 FOR ORCHARD. FIRST BLIZZARD OF SEASON. Pennsvlvania to gather up 1,000 cats, to be shipped West to rid the farms and gardens of Okanogan county of rats and gophers. Prisoners in the Lima, Ohio, jail as saulted their guards and four escaped. The 15-year-old son of the sheriff bluffed the other six with an empty rifle and held them at bay until help came. t General Hodges, commanding the De partment of the Great Lakes, says it would undoubtedly be easy for a for eign power to invade the Pacific Coast, but he is certain Japan does not want war with any one at present. These facts were given me by a rep resentative of a Seattle ship yard, working with whom, as he admitted, was the vice president of a San Fran cisco ship vard. About that time Secretary Mever de livered an address at Philadelphia in which he advocated the buildins of bat tleships for one reason that it gave business to the steel industry. Apparently Congressman Tawnev is right in charging more or less conspir acy to scare the country into bolstering up the program of military enthusiasts. These evidences point to activities bv a ship yard to lobby and the advocates of a large standing army. Secretary Dickinson hints at the need of a standing army of 450,000 men, in A Spokane boy aged 17 died from the effects of raw alcohol given him by stead of the present effective force of 115,000. The international a trainman, Roosevelt advised the students of Harvard to go into politices "for their own good." A Kansas man applied for a divorce because his wife smoked cigarettes, but it was refused. The Supreme court of the United States has decided that a conspiracy under the Sherman anti-trust law may be a "continuing offense." An Atlantic Coast liner with 300 passengers and a hold full of cotton took fire and was destroyed. The pas- sengers and crew were saved. Representatives of the Mexican reb els have presented proofs at Washing- ton that their wounded and prisoners were butchered by the government troops. A mechanic attached to the govern ment forces at Fort Stevens, Ore., has invented a safety appliance to prevent large guns from being fired prematurely. Canadians desire a permanent peace treaty with the United States. With in the last two years, nine disputes be tween Canada and the United States have been disposed of by negotiations and agreements. Floods in Northern Italy are becom ing serious and many villages are isolated. Aldrich and Lodge intimate that they are willing to revise the tariff piecemeal. Representative Tawney, of Minne sota, may succeed Ballinger as secre tary of the interior. Roosevelt announces he is in favor of a radical program' of reform, to be enacted by conservatives. Mexican rebels were routed in a stubborn fight in which they lost 70 men, while the government loss was 14, including two officers. . Dr. George Edgar Vincent, of the University of Chicago, has been elect ed president of the University of Min nesota, at a salary of $10,000 a year. The Aero club of New York has challenged the Royal Aero club of Eng land to an all-round contest for the aeroplane championship of the world. Six men were'drowned by the capsiz ing of a launch on the Snohomish riv er, Washington. The boat was being rocked by three drunken loggers on top of the cabin. By an imperial order the ban against Jews in Moscow, Russia, has been re moved. The deficit in the Postal department has dwindled $11,000,000 during the past year. A Missouri man has established his claim to a $10,000 estate by a peculi arity in his voice. It is announced tliat trie Klamath cut-off of the Southern Pacific will be finished by June, 1911. r our memDers oi one iamily near Silverton, Or., died of black smallpox, and three others are seriously ill. Moorehead, Minn,, reports a temper ature of 16 below zero, and a cold wave grips the Mississippi valley and the East. Many settlers in Western states have been granted leave of absence from their homesteads, owing to fail ure of crops. The Federal court at Greensboro, N. C, ba decided that the "white slave" law is unconstitutional, as it interferes with state rights. importance of the acts of these war propagandists, is shown by editorials in Japanese news papers, telegraphed to the state depart ment here, citing the proposals to for tify the Panama canal, increase the standing army and create a powerful Pacific fleet, as evidences to the Japa nese that this country desires war with them. - Strangely, the war scare comes at the very time when the peace society is in session here, as if the scare had been planned to offset the pleas for disarmament. MEXICAN TROOPS LOSE. Government Forces Nearly Annihilated by Insurrectos at La Junta. El Paso, Tex. President Diaz' Mexi can army has, suffered a loss of 050 men in dead and wounded in a battle at La Junta, according to the latest news from the scene of hostilities. The federal troops engaged in the fight numbered 1000 men. When they raised the white flag there were only 50 able bodied! men in the force that surren dered to the victorious revolutionist!!. La Junta is a small town on the Mexico, Northwestern & Orient rail road. News of the battle and its re sult was sent out by railway employes. The telegraph wires were cut later. There has been fighting near Oiiniga. south of Marfa,- Texas. Many horses belonging to Mexican troops escaped into Texas and it is believed that the federals were annihilated. Reinforce ments should have arrived there last night or today if they were not de feated, marching westward from the Orient railroad station at ' Falomir. They left Chihuahua last Sunday for Falomir. Troops sent, out from .Timinez. the railroad junction point for the road leading into Parral, have not. been heard from.- They were attempting to join Navarro's forces marching from Chihuahua. Today orders were. issued throughout the state of Chihuahua by the Jefes of villages and towns instructing all men having arms to come in and register rnem ana give an account of why they are m their possession. Burglars, Trapped. Killed Police. London. Burglars who killed two policemen last night in a pistol duel with five officers were tunneling to a vault containing $100,000, according to information given out- at Scotland Vard. The robbers had started the tunnel from a house in Cutler street to the vaults of the Henry Harris jewelry shop at Houndsditch and the boring was nearly completed. A policeman discovered the tunnel and summoned help. In the fight that followed two policemen were killed and the robbers escaped. Sealskins No Higher. Victoria, B. C Tha sealskin sale held at Lampsnn's in London, at which the total catch, over 3,000 skins, of the Victoria pelagic fleet, the United States government take of 12,000 from the Pribilof rookeries and e:itche nf locally owned fchonnprs in the .ontli Atlantic and Antarctic, about 10,000 or 17,000 pelfs in all. were offered, Rhowed Expenditure of $2,040,000 Recom mended for County Roads. After recommending the expenditure of $2,040,000 for state-aid roads, the 200 delegates from all parts 6f Orego: in attendance upon the good roada con vention held in Wemme Hall, Port land, adjourned. Of the large sum mentioned 83 per cent, or $680,000, is to be taken from the state treasury and the re mainder comes from the counties tak ing advantage of the state law. It is evident from the opening of the session that good roads were close tne hearts oi .me delegates, it was also apparent that most of the mem oersnip oi tne convention was aware that it went to Portland to consider five bills prepared by Lionel R. Web ster to be recommended for adoption by the state legislature. There were quite a number of the members of the legislature in the convention body, some oi wnom iook an active part in the discussion with regard to the pro posed laws. ine two important measures were settled by providing that state aid should be one-third and the county two-thirds, providing that $40,000 is expended by the county.- The second point was left to the county court to locate the road with the restriction that "such road shall begin at one of the principal market places in the county or shall connect with a perma nent road leading to such a place, anc shall be so located that, when con structed, as herein provided, it will constitute one of the main traveled roads to the place from whence it starts." John H. Alberts, of Salem, pointed out the following facts with regard to the proposed assessment for the bene fit of state-aided roads: "Portland has an assessed valuation of $227,000,000, the public service cor porations $132,000,000, the timber lands $160,000,000, making $569,000, 000 out of a total of $800,000,000, leaving the farms of the state, along with the large personal property taxa tion such as mortgages and other feat ures, with only $140,000,000. "So you see, gentlemen, regardless of the fact that you are farmers and are entitled to a great deal of consid eration in reality your assessment is a small portion of the assessment of the state and the burden of the state-aided roads will fall heavily upon the incor porated cities and the people who live there." A resolution was passed requesting the legislature to pass a bill which would put a license tax upon automo biles of 25 cents for each horsepower up to 50 horsepower. On automobiles having 50 horsepower the charge to be 50 cents a horsepower. A committe of five was appointed to prepare a bill regarding the regula tion of the width of tires to vehicles. A committee of two from each coun ty in the state was ordered appointed by the chair to go Jbefore the legisla ture to secure the passage of the bills adopted by the association. Five proposed bills adopted by the Oregon Good Roads convention are re garded by 'Judge Webster, author of the bills, as a chain to make the efforts of th good roads advocates effective. They include the creation of a state highway board, provisions of how Btate aid to county roads shall apply, how bonds shall be issued for the construction of county roads and how state convict labor may be util ized in the construction of roads throughout the state. The fifth bill provides for the use of county and city jail prisoners. The convention was the result of the adoption of the constitutional amend ment at the recent election eliminating the provisions which forbade counties from encumbering the taxpayers with an indebtedness in excess of $5,000 for the construction of county roads. Seattle Capitalist Buys Well Known Tract Near Medford. Medford Samuel Rosenberg a prom inent Seattle business man. has mir. chased the Bear Creek orchard, paying uiereior dUU,UUU. lhe orchard comprises one of the finest tracts in the valley. Many worm a records for high prices paid ior iruu nave Deen shattered by it. for the past two years it has been managed by C. E. Whisler, a promi I! 81: The tract wa8 owned Up t0 toniBht no definite report of loss uj iucbbib. viiisier. uiweii. i.mrk nnn i j u . ,. Mvera th. if V.- ' ",j 7Z ul "le "au nsaenea mis cuy. the tract consiHto nf 937 .,..- ii 8torm Included planted1 io Truit, hence the price paid p b5hoon" Thma,8 B. Garland, of represent nvpri snn ... I Portsmouth, a" total wreck on Great siderinfi- the nf ice hhirt ow RnK..PoInt bar Nantucket. The crew were l t . - . IrpflPlloH Oovlif fnla Terriffic Storm Sweeps Atlantic Coast Life Savers Busy. Boston, Dec. 17. A northwest bliz zard last night and today brought dis aster to shipping along tha Massachu setts coast and tonight four schoefners were known to have been wrecked, an other was in tow, disabled, one barge had foundered, and other barges were reported adrift and missing. The revenue cutter Gresham, which took aboard the crews of two sinking schooners and assisted other vessels, spent the entire day and most of the night undoing the havoc of the storm. has has secured oneifth finest tracts in the valley at a very .reasonable fig ll.n 1kn. ..L. I 1 1 , '! iiiavnie urcnaru win prove a profitable investment is not doubted by mose wno are laminar with the return realized during the past 10 years. The orchard was formerly the property of nunr, iewis, who sold to the syndi caie, Oregon Evergreens to Califarnia. Astoria Oregon Christmas trees are being sent Bouth to make holidav sea- 1 r . it i oun reai ior me children and grownups oi aiuornia. One of the largest shinments of onrisimas trees or the season has just ten on me steam schooner Yosemite. r" i i -,1 . , wiic uiuusunu nnscmas trees wna ashed to the vessel's deckload of lnm. ber so that she presented an imitation forest island afloat on , the river as she left the harbor. "' The stonm chooner. Yellowstone also' took 1C0 trees, and all will be delivered to Los Angeies, where they will be sold to the people of that city. Threshermen to Pendleton, renaieton btill another convention of a state organization is to be held in Pendleton and the reputation of this place as a convention city further sus tained. Through the efforts of E. L. smith, local agent for the Holt Com- med harvester, arjd the invitation ot v resident VV. L. Thompson of the Pendleton Commercial association, the rescued early today by the ,Coakata uresavmg crew. schooner Abbie G. Cole, of Machias. I'Me,, stranded and waterlogged in 'Stone Horse shoal, off Monomoy point. atie crew were rescued by the Gresh am this morning, when Monomoy point lifesavers found the seas too heavy to launcn their lifeboats. lhe two-masted schooner H. E. Ayer, taken in tow by the Gresham off uia nar nor; British Bchooner 'S. A. ' Fownes. ashore off Monomoy Point. . The Gresham took on board the crew late today. Lumber-laden schooner SteDhen G. Loud, abandoned 33 miles southeast of Boston light. The crew were rescued this morning by the steamer A. W. Perry and brought here. At Portsmouth, N. H.. the three- masted schooner Annie F. Conlon ar rived today in a disabled condition. 21 days out from Philadelphia. lhe barge May wood, one of a tow of three behind the tug Margaret, found ered last night off Cape Cdd. and the other barges of the tow, the Scranton and Binghampton, are missing. One of the barges in tow of the tug Cum berland is also reported missing. IE KILLS 12 Double Explosion Wrecks N. K. Central Power House. Trolley Car Hurled on Top of Auto By Blast Children In Hospital Narrowly Escape. New York, JDec. IDTwelve persons were killed, two of thorn women, and were injured in a double explosion 30 JAPAN HAS TROUBLES. Will Strenghten Navy, Despite Heavy Indebtedness. Tokio, The budget for 1911-12, Her as ft a l mi i . . t oiaie mresnermen s association, which finally completed, was announced today .to ..mi ycu uuu in un. uranue nas nn tn nm pledged to give us its next meeting. City Purchases Water Plant. Redmond Redmond has a municipal water system, having purchased the plant put in by the Redmond Townsite company. The contract to extend the system has been awarded J. O. Coo ley who is now at work on the job and has all the three thousand feet of main laid. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Track prices: Bluestem, 84c; club, 82c; red Russian, 80c; 40 fold, 83c; valley, 82c. Barley Feed, $22 per ton; brewing, $23. Millstuffs Bran, $2425 per ton; middlings, $29(B;31; shorts, $25.50 26; rolled barley, $24.50(25.50. Corn Whole, $29; cracked, $30 ton. Oats No. white, $27.5028.50 per ton. n .ii r-r rouitry nens, siofttibc; springs. 15c; ducks, white, 17c; geese, 12 ldc; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed. 22 2dc; squabs, $2 per dozen. Lggs Oregon ranch, candled. 45c Eastern, Aprils, 32c per dozen: East ern fresh, 38c. Butter City creamery, solid pack, 37c per pound; butter fat. 35tf?37c Eastern, 3134c. Pork Fancy, 1010c per pound. veal fancy, 85 to 125 pounds. 12 V no advance in prices ovnr last year, ac cording to advicrs received here. Tremendous Earthquake Recorded. Clfveland. O. An earthquake similar to that which wrought S'ich havoc in the island of Java many rears azo. was recorded on the eismograph at St. Ignatim college The record of the two (juaks are being compared. Wahingon, Dec. 7. Secretary of the Navy Meyer this sf'ernoon assigned the obsoiete cruisers Boton and Con cord to the Oregon and Washington na val militia, reflectively. Apple Lands Purchased. Frank A. Sweeney, of Portland, has sold $30,000 worth of fruit land near Mo3ier, Ore., to Chicago investors who intend to clear and plant the land to apples next spring. The deal was ne gotiated by a Portland land and real estate agent. Mr. Moore also reports the sale of 640 acres of partly im proved land located in Klickitat coun ty, Washington, to J. C. Carson, of South Dakota. The consideration was $9,600. Baker Will Have Big Mill. Baker A representative of the Quaker Oats company has been here for several days looking over condi tions with a view of locating a branch in this city. The mil!, if establish ed, will mean an investment of $.j00, 000, and will be one of the finest in the country. The Quaker Oats people have been attracted to Baker county on account of the fine quality of oata raised in this section. Steel Bridge in Us. Bandon The steel bridge across the south fork of the Coquille is open for traffic. E. G. Perham was the con tractor and the cost of the bridge $8,000. was Apples King, 4075c box; Wolf River, 75c(ffi$l; Waxen, 75c(a$l; Bald win, $75eftfl. 25; Northern Spy, 75c $1.25; Snow, $1.251.50; Spitzen- berg, $1.252; Winter Banana, $1.75 3.50. ureen rruus rears, i.ib(i'l per box; grapes, $11.35; cranberries, $10.50!! per barrel. vegeiaoiea ueans, lUMjllc per pound; cabbage, $lm l.25 per hundred: celery, California, $33.25 per crate; pumpkins, 11c per pound; squash, y2t; tomatoes, $1.25 per box; car rots, $11.25 per hundred; parsnips, $11.25; turnips, $1; beets, $1.25 1.50. ' Potatoes Oregon, $1.25 hundred. Onions $1.401.50 per hundred. Hops 1910 crop, lli3c; 1909 crop, 78c; contracts, 1212c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1317c per pound; valley, 1719c; mohair, choice, 3233c. Cattle Prime steers, $5.756; good to choice, $5.255.75; fair to good, $4. 75 5.25; common, $44.50; choice to prime cows, $4.755; good to choice beef cows, $4.254.75; fair to good, $3.754.25: common to fair. $23.50; good to choice heifers, $4.75 5; fair to good, $4.504.75; com mon to fair, $4 4. 25; choice to good fat bulls, $4rtt4.2n; fair to good, $3.50 4; common bulls, $2.50(3.25; good to choice light calves, $7f?;7.K0; fair to good, $6.50tfi7; good to choice heavy calves, $5.25fr6; fair to good, $4.75(fi5.25; common calves, $3.75 4.75; good to choice stags, $4. SOW 5; fair to good, $4ri 4.50. Hogs Choice, $7.7E8; good to choice, $7.50(fi7.75. Sheer) Yearling wethers, grain fed, $4.755; old, grain 'fed, $4.2f.4.50; choice ewes, grain fed, $3.754; good to choice, grain fed, $3.253.75; feed ers, $2.253; choice lambs, grain fed, $5,756; 6; good to choice, gra'n fed. $5.505.75; poor Iambs, $4.955. Hay fed sheep and lambs 50c lower than grain fed. Receipts, ordinary, 492,138,000 yen; extraordinary, 487,969,37; expendi tures, ordinary, 407,113,274; extraor dinary, 133,821,699. A yen is equiv alent to about 50 cents in American money. Marquis Katsura, premier and min ister of finance, takes a hopeful view of the fiscal situation. ' During the year past the government has had a particularly heavy burden to carry. The navy has called for an increased expenditure in order to avoid the criti cism of neglect in the face of the ad vance made by other powera. The an nexation of Corea and disastrous floods have added materially to the extraord- nary expenditures. Marquis Katsura lays down these two rules as effective in directing the policy of the government: First To maintain the balance of revenue and expenditure in the general estimates and not to look to loans as financial resources. Second To maintain the program of annual redemption of the public debt by an amount of 50,000,000 yen or more. He says the 'government has com mitted itself to these principles. In the next six years 82,000,000 yen will be spent in supplementing and improv ing the navy. ii I. -. . . l ui g.is ana uyiiiimito m the new electric power house of the New York Central Railroad, shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. lhe force of the exolosion shattered hundreds of windows in the biir hotel and apartment houses in the mmrl.hni.. huod of the railroad terrninil iMtnwintr alarm among the guests. The dynumito blast picked up u northbound trolley cur, lifted it in the air and spnt it- crashing down upon an automobile which was passing along the other side- U1 l"t street. i'0ur or the passengers were killed, and every one iu the car was injured'. ' The railroad service was only tem porarily interrupted. The new .sub-station power house, where the explosion occurred, is at Fiftieth street and Lex mgtou avenue, which is half a dozen blocks north of the Grand Central sta tion. . The explosion partly wrecked tha engine .house, near by and prevented the firemen from gtting their appar atus into -the 'street. Monsigiiois La Pette and Hayes and-Fathers O'Connor, McQuade, Sinnott and Byrnes, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, hurried , to the scene and administered the last rites of the church to the more serinimlv'in- f jured. At the postoflico substation at For tieth and Madison sion slightly injured several clerks and wirew tne mail all over the floor. In the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital ceilings were nartlir d.nkn,. down, and the windows brnkon t fortunately none tit the 300 children there was badly injured. ine power house, which is built nf stone and brick, and is six stories high, took fire after the pxulnsinn nn fi, interior was nractiftiillv hnrn,i Just what caused the double explosion may probably never be Imown. For tunately for -the thousands of commut ers on the New York Central lines, the force of the . dynamite blasts was di rected in an opposite direction from the railroad tracks, otherwise the load ed incoming trains might have been wrecked. Officials of the railroad learned that there were many workmen in the build ing nt the time of the explosion, and that but few of these had been account ed for. In tho Bible Teachers' Train ing School, on Lexington avenue, di rectly opposite the power house,' 12.7 men and women who were on their way to breakfast, were thrown tn th floor by the blast. Manv of the , and women were injured, and several of them were taken n i,n.,-.itni All the windows in the building were blown in and the ceilings fell. The damage to the power house and other buildings has not been estimated, but it was stated that it will likely exceed $'500,000. The employes of the railroad have been unable thus far definitely to as sign the cause of the explosion, but it is believed a large quantity of dyna mite stored in magazines close to the substation was responsible for the greater part of the damage. Meteor Grazes Logger. Astoria, Or. While John McCulley, an. employe of the Sorenson Logging company's camp near Svenson, was fastening the rigging on m log a blaz ing rock shot down as from the heav ens and Btruck the log . 10 feet away from him. Examination of the object showed that it was a meteor the size of a billiard ball. The glow on the exterior had gone when McCulley ex- aminea it, Dut when he broke it open he found the center red hot. The me teor came with terrific force and made a dent in the log. Famous Humorist Passes. Yonkers, N. Y. Melville Delancey Landon, better known as "Eli Per kins,' author and lecturer, died at his home here at the age of 71. He had been ill several years. Mr. Landon was well known in political life. He once served in the I reasury depart ment at Washington, D. C, and was on the staff of General A. L. Chetlain n the Civil war, reaching the rank of major. He resigned from the army and became a cotton planter. Man is Impaled Like Fish. Los Angeles, Cal. When a streetcar Btruck his wagon on Broadway, J. H. Craig, an express driver, was thrown out and impaled upon a bale hook which hung beside his seat. The pronged tool caught him in the back of the neck, and, piercing the under side of his jaw, protruded from his mouth like a fiah hook. The surgeons at the receiving hospital pronounced him ser iously injured. Christmas Goods Burned. Tacoma, War.h. Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed McCormsck Bros, big department store here, caus ing a los which will amount to up wards of f 10O.OOO, with insurance one third that amount. The McCormack Bros. stor was one of the largest in the citv. -living a frontage of 150 feet on Pacific avenue and runninir half a j block deep. Wireless Stops Train. Ottawa, Canada. Drawing a train nf twelve cars and rushing over the rails at a speed nf fortv f ive mllon on i,n,,s on a stretch of truck near the citv of Toronto, a powerful engine on the' Ca nadian Pacific railway service was brought to a quick standstill, with the throttle wide open, and the engineer standing in his cub. a mere spectator, like those present with him to view tho wonder. " . Tho brakes had ben anplied on the hjx locomotive and train of cars bv it wireless wave of electricity. Jf seemed as if a giant. had seized tho equipment and held t with ease. Kxperiments with n wireless train- control system have boon quietly con ducted hv the Canadian Pacific Rail way company since last, May, find this demonstratioiKwas the culmination of a long series of successful tests. Tube 1000 Miles Long. Chicago. The Record Herald tomor row will announce the completion of an engineering project for the construc tion of a tunnel between here and New York and other Kastern cities. Ac cord in sr to the plans, the tunnel will bo of sufficient dimensions to carry tele phone and telegraph wires and a pneu matic, tube for the transmission of packages. "Terminals here and in New York have been constructed," savs tho report, "and in a short time men will be placed aloncr the proposed route to. begin the actual work of excavation." Chinese Royalty Balks. Pekin. The throne has issued an edict refusing to create a constitutional cabinet in compliance with a memorial recently presented by the national as sembly and also declining to accept. the reaijjnatinns of the prand council ors. The imperial senate also adorifed I resolution pravinff for the immediafo creation nf a cabinet, and if was be- ieved (hp throne had deciileil tn ac cede. The national assembly will soon meet and the whole subject will be lisc ussed. Tlebrows Are to Convene. New York. Thenn'nr T?ooevelt. Mavnr OavnoV, Oscar S. Strauss. .Tndtre Tosiah Cohen of Pittsburg, and Pr. Pavid T'hillipson of Cincinnati will ad- re the twentv second conference of he Vnion of American Hebrew Congre gations to be held here on January 13 to 19 inclusive.