Show badly bruised in a runaway free trade favored manila august 12 mrs dubois wife of senator fred T dubois of idaho one of the party now visiting ting the philippine with secretary taft was abrown from her carriage during a runaway and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance whery she lay for three haars hoars unconscious her injuries are not dangerous an examination showed that she is badly bruised and jarred and ahe accident will probably interfere with her going on tha southern trip with the taft roosevelt party on the railway trip north of Sf anila the party will meet with an ovation at every place where a stop is made now that the party has been inthe in the islands for over a week a consensus of opinion of the majority of its members on the tree admission of island products into the markets of the united states has been obtained obtain sd and it can be stated without tear of contradiction that the attitude of the leaders of the opposition to the policy of a reduction ot the dingley tariff on sugar and tobacco has materially changed sines their arrival here representative B J hill of connecticut one of the leaders in the house in opposition to the further reduction of the tariff on tobacco declares himself in favor of tha free admission of cigars and tobacco from the islands into the united states senator F T dubols leader of tho opposition to the cooper bill in tho senate has also stated that he will not oppose freo trade while other members erstwhile odthe opposition party havo convinced themselves that sugar and tobacco from the islands will in no way affect like products of the united states it can be stated upon no lass authority that representative C S grosvenor of ohio that the cooper bill which was favorably reported upon by the house committee commit fee at the last session of congress will now be amended providing for free trade instead of the proposed reduction of 25 per cent on the prevailing dingley rates representative grosvenor says an amendment will be offered by rep D E payne of new york chairman of the committee on ways and means providing for the trea admission products and the outlook for its passage is very favorable secretary batts speech definitely defining the political status of the islands and he possibility that their independence will be deferred for a generation at least probably longer has strengthened the administration on all hands and local american merchants are highly gratified at the attitude taken by the administration in respect to the present and future government of the islands 1 MRS A HERO manila august 12 mrs dubols who was the guest of dr and mrs stafford was out driving with the St affords their l year old baby and its governess when the runaway occurred sha seized tho baby and saved its life at the peril of fsr own dr stafford is the superintendent of the civil hospital here mrs dubols is now fauly conscious COAL WORKERS KILLED pa august 12 thomas a miner and two hungarian laborers were killed and john lovett another miner was badly crushed today by a fall of coal in the truesdale colliery of the delaware lackawanna and western coal company the men were working together when without warning a large quantity of loose coal tearon them INTESTINE RUPTURED prominent business man operated upon for appendicitis tew borit aug 12 alan W wood son ol 01 W debose wood alie pittsburg steel magnate lay at the point of death last night in hospital taken violently on thursday afternoon he was operated on that night though hope is held out to the members of his family that he may recover it is admitted that abo chanca la extremely slight it was supposed that he was suiter ing from an attack of appendicitis but the operation revealed abo tact that one of his intestines had been ruptured the operation was extremely difficult and unusual and it was feared mr wod would not survive it but he rallied from its effects and was still alive last night te he had not been feeling well for several days but as his health had been excellent up to that time he paid little attention to his illness until it suddenly became so acute that ho was hurried to the hospital his condition has so far been so critical that not even his wife or the other members of bis family have been allowed to see him mr wood retired from active business about four years ago and camo from pittsburg to make his home in new york great surprise was occasioned when announcement was made last february that almost a year before sir wood bad married a well known show girl mr wood Is 65 years old and Is well known in the higher business circles here and in pennsylvania championship chicago august IS when champion chandler egan appeared at th first tee today to play the morning halt of tho finals for the national golt championship with D E sawyer of wheaton clouds were hovering over the championship links of the chicago golf club the sun broke through the clouds however and prospects tor rain became remote the largest gallery of enthusiasts ever seen on a golt course here was assembled egan aex pacts to bo successful in defending his title from the golt assaults ot his young rival |