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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 190G. DEMOCRACY ALL IT TO PIECES t that will be the first in the field, as the Democrats plan to convene, as usual. one week after the Republicans meet. 5H Division of . Enemy Insured Republican Victory in New York. HEARST SPOILS THE GAME lias Strong Organization Through out State and May Reduce De mocracy to Third Place Fusion on Judges. NEW YORK, June 10. (Special.) The Democratic party in New York State is split up into so many fac tions and subfactlons that any suc cessful campaign Is admittedly out of the . question, and the fight this Fall seems to be between the Republican nominee and William Randolph Hearst and his Independence League. An interesting feature that has de veloped is the probability that, when the Democracy centers upon the Pres idential fight In 1908, it may be en tirely without representation on the election boards. New York elections are conducted on the bi-partisan prin ciple. It is provided that at each poll ing place there shall be "two In spectors, one poll clerk and one ballot clerk chosen by the county committee of the party casting the highest num ber of votes- in- the state at the last state election," and "two Inspectors, one poll clerk and one ballot clerk chosen by the county committee of the party casting the next highest number of votes in the state at the last state election." James K. McGuire, ex-Mayor of Syracuse, and ex-state chairman, has pointed out that it is possible the Democracy may "entirely disappear" unless Hearst is put at the head of the ticket. Cleveland Men Fight Murphy. But despite all the lack of harmony that exists there is not much chance of Hearst's figuring in the state con vention. August Belmont, Alton B. Parker, Mayor McClellan and what Is known as the "Cleveland crowd," are not only lighting Hearst but they are openly out for the scalp of Charles F. Mur phy. Murphy does not know exactly where lie stands, and an alliance be tween Hearst and himself is not be yond the bounds of probability. Mur phy also Is back of ex-Congressman Francis Burton Harrison for state chairman, while Belmont and McClel lan are for Francis McCue, of Albany. Senator MeCarren, of Brooklyn, through his Standard Oil affiliations, will undoubtedly be whipped into line for the Belmont slate, although he personally prefers Hearst, as It would liely him locally. State Committeeman Joseph Cassldy, the ruler of Queen's County has come out for Hearst, and will support him in the convention. Ex-Judge D. Oady Herrick, who ran for Governor in 1904, wants to head the state ticket again, but has been informed by Belmont that he Is out of It. Naturally, ho is disgruntled, and his followers in Albany County threaten to knife the ticket. Old Leaders Down and Out. Ex-United States Senators David B. Hill and Edward F. Murphy, long powers in the state organization, are down and out. and will not make an effort to con trol the Democratic ship of state. National Committeeman Norman B. Mack, of Buffalo, expresses himself as favoring Hearst for Governor and Bryan for President, a choice that does not suit anybody. Mack's great enemy in Erie County, W. E. Conners, is also a Hearst man, but if Mayor Adon is u candidate and has the backing of Belmont, etc.. no body would be surprised to see them get in line for him. The leaders in the rural districts cut very little figure, and the bulk of them can be counted on to "go with the ma' chine." Leaders who are "looking ahead" view the situation with a great deal of anxiety, In many up-state counties and cities, par ticularly Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Schnectady and Albany, the Hearst or ganization seems to be on a very firm foundation, and these investigators are satisfied that McGuire spoke truly when he said that the Democracy would prob ably be third in the race. No Chance for Democrata. "In my opinion," said one man who has carefully looked over the field, "we have no chance to make a successful fight, and will place ourselves in a posi tion that will be very embarrassing In 1908. Everybody knows that McClellan was not elected by the votes of men who were Democrats, but by Republicans, who. seeing that either Hearst or McClellan would win, gave their ballots to McClel lan. "This year the proposition will be re versed. Before election day it will be made clear that the race is between Hearst and the Republican nominee, and the conservative Democratic vote will be shifted to Governor Hlggins or who ever heads the G. O. P. ticket. I would not be a bit surprised, despite the great Democratic majority in New York City to see one .candidate third in the list while up state he.,, would receive few If any votes. "If Hearst controls the minority elee tion officials we will be in a nice condi tlon. wont we? Our candidate for Presl dent will be obliged to run on a par with the Socialist and Prohibitionist nominees and trust that the men who oppose us will see that we are given a fair count of the ballots. "I would hate to see Hearst head our state ticket, but in my opinion it would be a great mistake to turn mm down We have everything to gain and nothing to lose by doing so. Keep Out Hearst Judges. In New York City a plan Is on foot to prevent the Hearst men from electing any Supreme Court Justices by providing for a "Union ticket" made up of men elected at the Republican and Democratic con ventlons. Nothing definite has yet been decided on this subject, , but leaders on both sides are confident that it will go throuKh. The indications now are that Governor Higgtns will be given a second term. He Is admittedly not as strong a candidate as some other men would be, but in the nresent state of Democratic dlsorganiza tion the belief is that anybody could win. The Republican State Convention will not be held until late in September, ana, if there is no change in the political situation at that time, Higgins will be named; If the outlook is stormy, the prob ability is that Charles E. Hughes, the gas investigator, will be chosen to head the ticket. The Independent League has decided to postpone its state convention until tn end of July or early in August, but even TAFT 'TWIXT TWO STOOLS Hesitates Between Judgeship and Contest for Presidency. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. June 9. The Taft presidential boom is getting more space In the papers at the present time than any other Re publican boom. The retirement of Asso ciate Justice Brown of the Supreme Court is partially responsible for this, for it has been understood that Taft will be nDolnted to the vacancy if he cares lor the honor. The presidential talk has been incidental to the rumors of the Supreme Court appointment. Secretary Taft Is a presidential aspirant. This cannot be denied, and he is too hrewd a politician to make any move that will interfere with his prospects of securing the presidential nomination. Taft knows and his rivals know that he Is In a position to command strong sup port at the next convention. So far It is an open field and Taft's chances are about as good as those of any otner man. If Taft should accent a place on the Su preme bench he would forever surrender his chance of becoming President. J.nai Is why he hesitates. If the vacancy on .the Supreme Dencn was created by the retirement of the Chief Justice instead of an Associate Justice, it is believed Taft would prompt ly accept the appointment and forever put aside the hope of becoming President, but the office of Associate Justice is not oi puch great Importance, and Taft hesitates to cast away his chance of becoming pres ident merely to become an Associate jus tice. The events of the next six months win go a long way toward determining the fu ture of Taft. If there shouia oe aeveiop ments which would put him forever out of the presidential race, he will probably be named for the Supreme bench when Congress reassembles next winter, but if his boom continues to grow and thrive, he will probably pass up the Judicial of fer In order to be unhampered when the next Republican convention -meets. Bv repeatedly advocating the purchas ing of Panama canal supplies In foreign markets when they can be had cheaper abroad than at home, Taft has handi capped himself, but he Is plugging along just the same as If nothing had hap pened, and Inasmuch as Congress has now legislated on this subject, relieving him of all responsibility for canal purchases In the home market, this objection may be waived. At all events, the next six months will demonstrate how much harm has been done by his frank business-like policy. The Fairbanks boom, the Root Doom and the Cannon boom are not being ac tively agitated these days: presidential talk centers around Taft. But It is two years before the nominating convention meets and so much can happen in that time that It would be impossible for the shrewdest forecaster to predict what will become of the Taft boom before June 1908. Riddled With Bullets While Ridiqg at Bielostok. LIFE ATTEMPTED BEFORE Evidently as a Diversion, Secret Ser vice Men Were Attacked in An other Part oi Town and Several Wounded. BIELOSTOK, Russia, June 10. Chief of Police Derkatchoff, against whose life several attempts had been made, was shot and killed today by several un known persons while he was out driving. His coachman was severely wounded. At the same time the secret police were attacked In another portion of the town, one of them being wounded. CAUGHT WITH THE BOMBS Young Man Attempts to Wreck Sub way Power Station. NEW YORK, June 10. An attempt was made tonight to explode a bomb In a man hole of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company In front of the power-house, at East Seventy-fourth street, which fur nishes current to the subway. One man. Joseph Bartky, 22 years old was arrested. the police say, as he was about to light the fuse of the bomb as It lay on the man hole cover.- Two companions who were with him escaped. On Bartky was found three other bombs, all being of uniform size, the shape of a baseball, but a little larger. The prisoner declares that he and his friends had found the bombs at a pleasure resort today, and brought them home to set off later. They went In front of the power-house to do this. As the feed wires which pass through the manhole In question carry the main current for the subway, a wrecking of the hole would probably have put the under ground road out of commission for many hours. MINISTRY XEAKS ITS EXD. Cabinet More In Accord With the Lower House Soon Expected. ST. PETERSBURG, June 10. In spite of the official dental, belief that the retirement of the Goremykln Ministry is near at hand was reasserted today by the Reich, the Constitutional Democratic organization, which apparently Is looking forward hopefully to the installation of a Cabinet more In harmony with the lower house of Parliament. The hope apparently springs from the belief that the Ministry is about to go smash through Internal dissensions over the agrarian programme of Minister Stlchlnski, concerning which there has been much gossip lately. Members of the Cabinet, however, assert that seri ous discord has manifested itself. The project of M. Stiehinsky has not yet been submitted to the Ministry In toto and preliminary discussion of it realized no strong current against It. The Liberal organs also give credit to a report that the Emperor, in deference to the sentiment of the lower house, has decided to suspend executions, pending the enactment of a law abolishing them; but the rumor finds answer in the dis patches from Warsaw, where one man was hanged Saturday for an attack on a policeman and four have been con demned to death for sacking the town ship treasury, and from Riga, where a courtmartial of 36 members of the flght- ng band of revolutionists has condemned to death seven men, among them being the leader, known throughout the whole of , the Baltic provinces as "Napoleon." and 20 to Imprisonment from three to fifteen years. The elections In the Caucasus are everywhere going in favor of the Social Democra ts. The agrarian disorders are steadily spreading in widely separated localities, and the government, though it boasted of Its ability to prevent disturbances this year, Is unable to cope with them. Morality and the Public Health. New York Sun. In the public conveyances throughout the metropolis the health ordinances of the city require that there shall be posted notices to the effect that spitting upon the floor is unlawful and may be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. Further, it has been or should be made a punishable offense to expectorate upon the sidewalks and streets, or upon floors of public buildings. The wisdom of these ordinances is now generally recognized for the reason that through the press, from the platform and by the dissemination of printed lectures the people at large have been educated to an appreciation of the dangers of the spread of tuberculosis or consumption. They have learned that the germs of this disease are contained by millions in the matter ejected from tho lungs and throat of a consumptive in a single ex pectoration, which, drying, become mixed with particles of dust, or float free in the atmosphere to be inhaled and thus made agents in the infection of others. John Wesley, the founder of Method- Ism, sounded the keynote of modern hy glene when he paraphrased Bacon's epl gram as "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." The surgical practice of today and the tremendous strides that have been made in this department of science are based upon this maxim. Listerlsm and asepsis are only new words for cleanliness. The astonishingly low death rate fol lowing wounds received by Japanese 'sol diers in the late war with Russia is ac counted for In great measure by their extreme personal cleanliness. The orders of the medical staff were as implicitly obeyed as those given by the officers of the line. Before going Into the great battle of the Sea of Japan and before the engagements on land every Japan ese sailor and soldier was made to wash hia body thoroughly and to put on clean underclothes. The moral life is just as essential to the protection of the body from disease as Is personal cleanliness. Robert Roosevelt Very 111. nun j -. - . , . . - . ... . . - - - velt. uncle of the President, is seriously ill at his country home, Lotus Lake, 9a ville, L. I. He is 70 years old, and anxiety is relt Dy relatives. SAN FRANCISCO EXCURSION. Very 1-ow Rate Made by Southern Pacific From l'ort'and for June 16. The extremely low figure of $45 for l-mmH trln. including berth and meals. has been made by the Southern Pacific for an excursion to aan r rancisco. Sat urday. June 16. Train leaves Portland Union station hi o.to x-. m.., unviug tti Son Vrnnclsro Monday. June 18. 8:48 A. M. Monday and Tuesday will be spent In San Francisco. Train leaves San Fran cisco Tuesday. June 19. at 8:20 P. M.. and arrives at Portland. Thursday, June 21, at 7:25 A. M. This includes berth in standard Pullman sleeper going and re turning also while train is parked at Oak land Sixteenth-street station. Also in cludes breakfast, luncheon and dinnei June 17: breakfast and dinner June 18 and 19; breakfast, luncheon and dinner June 20. l lCKeis win ue urmieu 10 uune u, 1906. for return to Portland. Pullman res ervations should be made through C. W, Stinger. City Ticket Agent. Third and Washington streets. Portland. Special rate of one and one-third fare from points Id Washington ana eastern Oregon to Portland lor all those wno Join the ex cursion. I ICE CHIEF 11 Bloody Riot at Warsaw. WARSAW. June 10 Six were killed in a riot here today. The disturbances are reported to have been organized to avenge the workman Marczwski, who was ex ecuted In the citadel Saturday morning for attempting to kill a police officer, Foreign Loan Is Denied. ST. PETERSBURG, June 10. An of ficial denial of the rumors that the gov ernment intended to conclude a new foreign loan was Issued today. STRIKE RIOTS IX BRUSSELS Ringleaders Are Arrested, When the Mob Charges the Prison. BRUSSELLS, June 11. (Special.) Seri ous strike riots are reported throughout all Belgium, disturbed conditions prevail lng in nearly every trade. The center of activity is at Verviers, where yarnspin ners. machinists, brewery employes and other tradesmen are striking for a shorter workday and increased pay. They planned a mammoth demonstration Sunday, and announced their intention of ivirading throughout the principal streets of the city and holding a mans meeting on the square near the veuxtempe monument. The authorities prohibited this, but the strikers gathered early in the day and attempted to parade. The leaders were arrested by gendarmes and conveyed to the police station after a fierce fight. In which a number were injured on both sides. The mob, numbering nearly 5000 people, then attacked the police stiXion in which their leaders were confined hurling volleys of stones at it and shat tering every window In the structure. Gendarmes charged with drawn swords, amidst a hail of stones, hurled from windows and roofs of neighboring struc tures and from the side streets. They finally dispersed the mob, but only after many other casualties had resulted. It was then decided to convey the prisoners to the city prison, and they were put into prison vans and started for there under a cordon of police. The mob attacked the escort and tried in vain to get to the vans. The police held their own. however, and got their prisoners to a place of safety. They then charged the crowds In all streets and made many arrests. Rioting is also reported from a num ber of other points in the kingdom, but In every case the disturbances were quell by prompt action of the authorities. The First Lady Mayor. London Post, With the title of Lady MayorMS we are all familiar, and thtf more familiar since the monopoly which London and Dublin enjoyed for centuries has been extended of late years to such provin cial centers as Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Belfast, Cork and Cardiff. But the ap pearance of Lady Dockrell as the mover of the principal resolution at the annual meeting of the Women's Local Government Society, held at the London house of the Earl and Countess of Meatta, Lancaster Gate, last week, reminds one that for the first time we have a lady Mayor. Lady Dockrell is the first woman in the British Islands to occupy the position of chairman -of an urban Council. Lady Dockrell, who Is the wife of Sir Maurice Dockrell, a prominent and popular citizen of Dub lin, has been a. member of the Black rock Council since the passing of the local gpvernment act of 1898, and so excellent administrator has she proved that she Is now head of the Council, a petition In which she has been placed by the voters of the men Councilors. Quarrel Among the Cnions. ST. LOUI3, June 10. The Building Trades Council yesterday declared a gen eral strike on all buildings rm which members of the Bricklayers and Stone masons' International Union are em ployed. London has JUBt completed a beauty show in which men m well as women competed. The prize of the handsomest man wa won by a porter named Forsey. ISifsW eek Mean o the Eid of It Eilers Piano House Must Be Vacant Next Saturday or We Lose a Thousand Dollars to the Landlord THIS RECEIPT TELLS THE STORY. READ IT! "Received of Eilers Piano House check in my favor for $1000 in escrow as fol lows: The lease executed by Thos. Scott Brooke, trustee, as lessor, in favor of Eilers Piano House, as lessee, covering the ground floor and basement of the building standing on the northwest corner of Park and Washington streets, in the City of Port land, Oregon, expired with the thirty-first day of May, 1906. It has now been mu tually agreed between the lessor and the lessee that said lessee shall have to and including the 16th day of June, 1906, in which to move from and surrender up the possession of said premises to the lessor.-- "If, therefore, said Eilers Piano House shall move from said premises and de liver up the possession thereof to said Thos. Scott Brooke, trustee, by midnight of June 16, 1906, leaving said premises in the condition in which they are now, with the exception of the stock and goods, office furniture, store and office fixtures,. be longing to the lessee, then said money shall be paid back by me to said Eilers Piano House. But" if default be made in the performance of said agreement, or any of the conditions thereof by said Eilers Piano House, then in that event I shall forthwith endorse over and deliver to said Thos. Scott Brooke, trustee, said check so delivered to me. '(Signed) J. COUCH FLANDERS" We must sell pianos. We must sell organs. Pianolas must go. Pianola pianos must go. Everything connected with the big establishment from a door mat and window curtain, to the costliest of baby grands, concert grands and Weber Metrostyle pianola pianos must be disposed of before Friday noon, no matter what the sacrifice. Select a piano or organ how and pay for it whenever it best suits your convenience. "We must get rid of everything in six days more. If tremendous price-cutting counts for any thing all will be gone by that time. The best time to come is the first thing this (Monday) morning. No pianos will be held or reserved. Everything must go. First come, first served. EILERS PIANO HOUSE 351 WASHINGTON STREET GETS IN HOT WATER Senate Angry With Beveridge About Statehood. GAVE UP IN CONFERENCE Presents Conference Report Op posed to Will of Majority, Which Will Reject Ifc Whole Ques tion May Be Deferred. States cruiser Tacoma and the tug Poto mac, part of the escort of the drydock Dewey on Its journey to the Philippines, arrived at the League Island Navy-Yard today, having left the Dewey and Its es trt at the Sues Canal. The Dewey, It is said, broke adrift five times, and in. each Instance a line was fastened to the big: floating object In the face of the greatest danger. OUR COIN REJECTED. ORKOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 9. There is a general belief In Washington that Senator Beveridge of Indiana, chairman of the committee on territories, attempted to betray the Sen ate on the Joint statehood bill, in order to put through a measure to which the Senate is manifestly opposed, but which Is heartily Indorsed by Beveridge and by the House of Representatives. During the long statehood fight that oc cupied the first months of the present ses sion, Beveridge exerted himself to pass the two-state - bill In substantially the form in which it passed the House. The Senate was not favorable to that bill and Beveridge was defeated. Being chairman of the committee on territories, however, the Senate had to make him one of the conferees, but the precaution was taken of instructing Beveridge and his asso ciates on the committee to insist upon the acceptance by the House of the new For aker amendment, which permitted New Mexico and Arizona to vote separately to determine whether or not their people favored Joint statehood. This meant that there would be no joint state made of these two territories Williams Forced Action. The conferees had a series of sessions without reaching a conclusion. It began to appear that they were holding back with the object of defeating the entire statehood legislation. This led John Sharp Williams, the minority leader in the House, to Instigate a systematic filibuster in the hope of forcing the conference com mittee to report back the statehood bill. Williams had filibustered only a few weeks when the conference committee re ported a compromise bill that is not sat isfactory to anybody... it. in efrect, would admit New Mexico and Arizona as a single state, of course making another state of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The bill. as reported does not accomplish this directly, but the effect is apparent, and no one was deceived. The Senate Is very determined. A ma terial majority of its members believes It would be unwise to admit Arizona and New Mexico aa a single state, particu larly as it has been reliably represented that the better element of these terri tories is not in favor of Jointure. It was for this reason that the Foraker amend ment was adopted authorizing the ad mission of a joint state, provided a ma jority ot the voters of each territory vote In favor of it. This amendment very clearly means that Arizona and New Mexico will remain as territories lor an indefinite time iust as the old Foraker amendment adopted by the conferees means the admission of one state to em brace the two territories. May Admit One State. The Senate is pretty angry with Bever idee for havine "laid down" on the state- hood bill and accepted a bill that he knew was not acceptable to the majority, and from present indications the Senate will reject the -bill as reported by the confer ence committee. An effort will be made to compel the conference committee to reconsider the hill and bring in a report that will admit but one state, leaving Arizona and New Mexico to remain undefc their Dresent form of government. If such an agreement can not be reached there is prospect that the statehood bill will go over to be finally considered at the next session of Congress, ine e- publicans, however, do not want Congress to adlourn without admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and if the present bill falls, an attempt will be made to pass a bill for the one state only, saying noth ing whatever about the two big South western territories. j Dewey Consorts Return. PHILADELPHIA, June 10. The United Presence of $1,000,000 Worth Cautie Loss to Canada. Toronto Mall and Empire. Our neighbors will soon have re turned to them the small change that has drifted out of their circulation and has for years been tossing about in ours. The nickels, the dimes, the 25-cent pieces, the 60-cent pieces and the dollar pieces that bear, if not ex actly the Image and superscription, at all events the emblem of uncle bam, will vanish from the pockets and the tills to and from which they used to pass in this countrty on equal terms with our own silver coin. Under an arrangement made by the finance de partment with the banks the latter are arresting all the American silver coins that come into their hands. At the beginning of the present month tne plan for the expulsion of this alien monev came into operation. All of the American pieces that reach the banks will be assorted and shipped to New York, where they will be received at the agency of the Bank of Montreal. It is not because they will be specially benefited by the riddance that the banks are helping the coin out. Though the amount of this American metauc money In Canada is estimated at Jl,- 000,000, it does not compete to any appreciable extent with bank cur rency, which is all In the lorm or notes of no lower denomination than i. It is true, if we give facility to the cir culation of American coin, we invite American paper money. Doubtless there would be less of the latter here if the silver of our nergnbors were al ways refused in Canada. It is the Dominion Government money, however, not bank money, that is displaced by American silver pass ing in Canada. And with the Domin ion Government the loss is no mere Interest charge. The Government loses the difference between the coin value and bullion value. The metal in a 60 cent piece costs the Government about 23 cents. The piece or bunion tor which It pays out 23 cents is stamped into coin, which Is accepted by the creditors, suppliers or employes of the Government as payment for 50 cents' worth of service, material for credit. If the $1,000,000 of American silver had not been in the country, 11,000,003 or Canadian silver would have been re quired. To provide this money the Government would have to spend about $450,000, but as it would have got"$1.000.000 for it. there would have been a profit of $0.10.000. This should not be foregone because of indul gence toward our neighbors, or be cause we aro too careless to look after our own interests. By, keeping its money here we were really contrib uting more than $500,000 to the reve nue of the United States. The people of the United States do not recipro cate. They take neither our coins nor our bills, whether of the Dominion Government or the chartered banks. AUTO BURSTS A TIRE. THE EASY OIL. Scott's Emulsion is " the easy oil " easy to take, easy in action. Its use insures deliverance from the griping and nau seating sensation peculiar to the raw oil. Nobody who has any regard for the stomach thinks of taking cod liver oil in the old way when Scott's Emulsion is to be had. It is equally certain that no one whose health is properly regarded will accept a cheap emulsion or alcoholic substitute for Scott's Emulsion. It fulfills every mission, of cod liver oil and more. SCOTT & BOWKS, 409 Pearl Street, New York Machine Is Overturned and Four Are- Injnred, Two Fatally. CHICAGO, June 10. Four Chicagoans were Injured, two of them fatally, by the overturning of an automobile . near Mlnnetaka, north of here, today. The accident was caused by the bursting of a tire. Those fatally Injured were: Ed ward Salvess Plnger and Walter Stefflns, the chauffeur. Miss Margaret Plnger, a sister of John Plnger. brother of the young man, were badly bruised. The party was returning from a visit at the residence of Louis Swift, the packer, In Lake Forest. Christian Scientists Shaken Up. BOSTON. June 10. Thirty-four Christian Scientists were injured through the over turning of a large sight-seeing automo bile In the Brighton district today. Every person on the car was Injured. The automobile was descending Com monwealth hill when the brake broke and the machine ran away down the steep grade. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped, tore through- fence and over turned. Most of the party sustained noth ing more serious than bruises and sera tches. Independent Trunk Line. PHILADELPHIA. June 10. The North American tomorrow will say that a pro posal is understood to haye been put In tentative shape within the last few days to have the Pennsylvania Railroad sell Its holdings of Baltimore & Ohio stock to the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. It is proposed to es tablish an Independent trunk line system by combining the Baltimore & Ohio. Philadelphia & Reading and the Jersey Central Railroads in one company. This would make a railroad system connecting all the large cities of the United States from New York, Phila delphia and Baltimore on the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago and St. Louis on the west. Burled in Molten Iron. Allentown (Pa.) Cor. Philadelphia Record. John Bleiler, of Hokendaqua, met a hor rible death shortly after midnight at the Thomas Iron Works, where he was em ployed. He was working on a cinder en gine, and was standing near a furnace' waiting for a blast which was about to.be made. In a moment there was a terrific explo sion, and the molten iron splashed out of a hole above the mantelpiece, which broke out. , Bleiler was struck with the full force of the explosion. He fell over, and the mass of molten Iron and cinders flowed over his body. His fellow-employes made heroic efforts to rescue him, but were unable to do so on account of the stream of molten iron. 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