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Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 23,
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FOUR MINL.C !IILLED
Terrible Explosion In Buttonwood
Mine Near Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Wiikes-Barre, Feb. 19.—A terrific
explosion occurred in the Buttonwood
mine, operated by the Parrish Coal
Company, in Hanover township, about
two miles from this city. The explo-
sion caused the death of four men.
It occurred in a small structure
known as a timberman’s shanty, lo-
cated along the gangway a short dis-
tance from the foot of the shaft. In
this shanty was stored a lot of giant
powder and this exploded. A number
of company hands were at work on Sat-
urday night in the mine, and it is
thought that they went to the shanty
to rest and get warm, at the same time
eating lunch. The supposition is that
the heat from the steampipes became |
too intense and finally ignited the pow- |
der and exploded it.
The four men killed are: William |
Mentz, aged 25, single; John Taylor
Williams, aged 30, leaves wife nd two
children; Owen O. Anthony, aged 45,
leaves wife and eight children, and
Anthony Shuirun, Polish, aged 35,
leaves wife and one child.
The four men were in the centre of
the concussion and were tossed about
like feathers in a windstorm. Three of
the men met instant death and their
bodies were mutilated and dismember-
ed in a most ghastly manner. The
fourth man, Anthony Shulrun, died a
few hours later at the city hospital.
His head was crushed and several ribs
were broken.
PLANNED WHOLESALE MURDERS
Officials of Western Miners implicated
In Confession.
Boise, Idaho, Feb. 20.—Charles E.
Moyer, president of the Western Fed-
eration of Miners; William D. Hay-
wood, secretary of the same organi-
gation, and G. A. Pettibone, a former
member of the executive board of the
Federation, who were arrested in Den-
ver, charged with complicity in the as-
sassination of Frank Steunenburg,
former governor of Idaho, arrived at
Boise in custody of a strong guard of
Idaho and Colorado officers.
The prisoners are implicated
through the confession said to have
been made by Harry Orchard, who is
in jail charged with the Stuenenberg
murder. Orchard’s alleged confession,
it is asserted, disclosed a plot to kill
former Governor James Peabody, of
Colorado; William H. Gabbert, chief
justice of the Colorado supreme court,
and John Campbell, former chief jus-
tice. Orchard is said to have confessed
that wholesale assassinations were
planned at the headquarters of the
Western Federation of Miners in Den-
ver, chiefly by refugees from the
camps at Cripple Creek and Telluride.
Orchard’s alleged confession pur
ports to give details of the plot to as-
sassinate former Governor Steunen-
berg at Caldwell, Idaho, from fits in-
ception, according to a dispatch from
Boise. Since the confession was se-
cured more than two weeks ago de-
tectives have verified many of the
details.
TO PROBE OIL AND COAL TRUSTS
House Sub-Committee Agrees On Reso-
lution.
Washington, Feb. 20.—Investigation
by the interstate commerce commis-
sion of alleged monopoly of il and coal
by combinations of railways and other
corporations, is authorized by a com-
promise resolution agreed upon by a
sub-committee of the house committee
on interstate end foreign commerce
appointed to concider the Tillman and
Gillespie rescluiion and agree upon a
measure which will be reported to the
entire house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce. A combination
of the Tillman, Gillespie and Campbell
resclutions was effected.
MITCHELL NOT IN POLITICS
Miners’ Leader Declines Nomination
For Congress.
New York, Feb. 20.—John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, received a telegram from
Peoria, Ills. in which he was offered
the Democratic nomination for con-
gress to represcnt that district. Mr.
Mitchell immediately replied to the
convention, then in session in Peoria,
declining the nomination. He stated
that he would not accept any political
office while head of the mine workers.
Mr. Mitchell lives at Spring Valley, 111.
CHARGED WITH MURDER
President and Sehretary of Western
Federation of Miners Arrested.
Denver, Colo, Feb. 19.—Charles H.
Moyer, president of the Western Fed.
eration of Miners, and Charles D. Hay-
ward, secretary, were arrested on a
charge of complicity in the murder of
former Governor Steunenburg, of Ida-
ho. The arrest was made at the re-
quest of the authorities and an officer
is here from Idaho to take the men to
that state.
Talk of Trolleys By Canal.
Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 19.—It is stated
kere that a company of Pottsville and
Philadelphia capitalists has been
formed to get possession of the Schuyl-
kill canal, now practically abandoned
by the Roading company, and operate
it with electric trolley boats from
Schuylkill Haven to Philadelphia.
Through express boats for passengers,
and others designed to give quick haul-
age of coal and other freight, are con-
templated.
When Lung Sing |
Whistled :
By CLAUDE PAMARES
+3 Copyright, 1905, by E. C. Parcells
NR LLL,
The foreman at the Star ranch had
come up to the house in the middle of
the afternoon on some errand, and as
he passed the cook house where Lung
$iing was scouring his pots and pans
be heard a sound that caused him to
stop in his tracks and exclaim:
“Well, I'll be hanged!”
Lung Sing was whistling. He had
been cook at Star ranch for over a
year and had never been heard to whis-
tle before. Indeed, he never hummed,
never smiled, never talked unless di-
rectly spoken to. Ie was put down as
surly and crossgrained, but as he was
a good cook and as none of the men
AAI INIA PSAP
cared a copper whether he talked or not
he still held his place.
“What's the matter?’ asked Colonel
Spear’s wife, who was mistress of the
ranch, as the foreman finally reached
the door.
“That heathen back there is wiis-
tling.”
“Well, can't a heathen whistle?”
“There is no law against it, but Lung
Sing has been here over a year, and
this 12 his first toot. Wonder what has
happened to chirk him up?”
“I can’t say. I had him in here an
hour ago and told him that he'd have to
take the buckboard tomorrow morning
and drive over to Pine Hill to meet
Fannie Williams. She's coming on to
stay with us a month or two, you know.
They think something is the matter
with her lungs, and the doctor has ree-
ommended this climate. The colonel
has pot to go over to Wolf Creek, and,
of course, the rest of you are busy.”
“But—but I don't like the Idea,” said
the foreman as he scratched his head.
“Why don't you?”
“Because Lung Sing is whistling.
When a heathen whistles look out for
him.”
The woman laughed and turned away,
and a minute later the foreman was
walking off, He passed the cook house
again, and the Chinman was still whis-
tling softly to himself,
“He's at it again, and I'll bet he's up
to some deviltry. I'll tell the boys to
keep an eye on him.”
As soon as he had cooked the men's
breakfast rext morning Lung Sing set
out on his ten mile drive to the rail-
road. He was given many words of
and bring the girl and her trunk safely
to the ranch. His face was as impas-
give as a washboard until he bad left
the house half a mile behind him; then
be puckered liz mouth and began to
whistle, Between whistles he grirned
and siniled.
An hour and a half later he drove up
to the little station on the plains, and
when the train came in his passenger
stepped from one of the parlor cars.
Lung Sing welcomed Ler with a grunt.
He grunted again as he put her bag-
gage aboard the vehicle, and he put on
a blank look us the station agent said
to the girl:
“I suppose he's the cook over at the
Star and they sent Lim because all the
others were busy.”
“Oh, I'll excuse him,” laughed the
girl as she settled herself. And next
moment Lung Sing was driving away.
It was in June, and the weather was
cool and pleasant, and the girl almost
forgot the man beside her as mile after
mile was passed. Once or twice she
was conscious that he was whistling,
but as she didn’t know whether China-
men usually whistled or not she did
not give the matter a second thought.
She had been informed by letter that
the drive from the station to the ranch
house would not occupy over two hours
at the farthest. That meant her ar-
rival by noon, Her watch showed her
when that hour had come round, but
she could sce no sign of civilization, In
fact, she saw that the vehicle had left
the road, such as it was, and was pro-
cecding over the unmarked plains.
“Are wo alinost there?” she asked as
she turned to Lung Sing and spoke
for the first time since leaving the
station.
“Lille while—lille while,” he replied
as he stared straight ahead.
“But how is it that you are off the
road?”
“Load alle light.”
~ A minute later the Chinaman was
whistling. It wasn’t the honest whis-
tile of an American, but there was
something hypocritical and deceiving
about it. The girl had nothing further
to say. The man would not have been
sent if he hadn't been all right, and if
he had left the track it was probably
to take a short cut and reach the
house all the sooner. It was not until
her watch marked 1 o'clock and the
vehicle was being driven among the
scrub pines and cedars, along a stretch
of foothills, that the girl turned and
seized Lung Sing by the arm and ex-
claimed:
“] know you are not taking me to
the ranch house! What do you mean
by this?’
“Alle light-—-alle light,” replied the
Celestial as he hurried the horse for-
ward.
“But it Is not all right!
at once!”
He seized her with one hand to hold
her in the seat while he guided the
horse with the other, but in the strug-
gle the animal was reined into a tree,
and the vehicle stuck fast. Then Lung
‘Sing developed the plot that had been
avorking in his brain ever since the
‘moment he was told that he must drive
‘over for the visitor.
With a fierce scowl on his face, in
his pigeon English he ordered the giri
Let me out
‘to proceed in a certain direction. For-
caution by the colonels wife, and he !
promised over again to drive slowly |
ty rods beyond where she had left the
buckboard there was a rocky bluff hid-
den under the cedars and in the bluff
a cave of considerable dimensions.
Upon entering the cave he tied the
girl's bands and feet and then retraced
his steps. The vehicle was backed off
the brink of a gorge, the harness flung
over it, and then the man led the horse
into a thicket and cut its throat.
When he reappeared at the cave he
unbound his vietim and lay down on a
flat stone at the mouth and told her his
plans. He had heard of brigands and
holdups and abductions. He had ab-
ducted her and would hold her captive
until Colonel Spear was willing to
come down with $5,000 in cash and
promise not to set the law on his trail,
He had been wondering for several
years how he could make a grand coup,
but fate had never aided him before.
He knew the Chinese cook at Crescent
ranch and through him could get pro-
visions and open communication with
the colonel. She would be well treat-
ed, but she would Be held captive in
the cave until resuits could be brought
about.
Lung Sing rested on his right side
and elbow as he told his story. The
sun had got far in the west, and as it
shone over the hill forming the roof of
the cave it cast shadows down in front.
As the story was finished, and it had
been listened to without a word in re-
ply, Lung Sing began to whistle. He
had brought his plot safely thus far
and felt that he had a right to whistle.
As he whistled a new shadow appeared
among the shadows. It fell upon the
flat stone at the Chinaman’s beels and
was so clean cut that the girl drew in
her breatn at sight of it. She knew it
for the head of a great eat. The head
moved to and fro, and the ears worked
backward and forward, and all the time
the man lying there was whistling to
himself. He may have wondered why
the captive did not shed tears and ap
peal to his mercy, or he may have nren
tally praised her for the bold front sh
put on. She was ready enough to weep,
and she would have appealed but fo.
that shadow. It fascinated her and
for the time being made her oblivious of
her situation. Sometimes it disappear
ed for a moment. but always to reap-
pear and to seem to grow larger and be
come more menacing. By and by Lung
Sing ceased to whistle and said:
“1 tlie you up again and go away.”
He had lifted himself off his elbow
when there was a scream so fierce that
the hills rang, and a tawny body alight:
ed on the recumbent Chinaman, strug:
gled with him for a moment, and then
was gone from sight among the cedars,
The girl rose up and stared, but Tung
Sing was gone as well. The big moun-
tain lion had carried him off as easily
as a cat carries a mouse,
“Didn't I tell you?” said the foreman
of the Star ranch at midnight that
night when the girl had been found
wandering on the plains and brought in
by a searching party. “It isn’t in the
nature of a Chinaman to whistle. He
just sulks and grunts. When you find
him whistling, look out for him, for
there'll be mischief to pay in some
shape.”
Steelyards Still Popular,
“It beats ine,” said a clerk in a hard
ware store, “how the old fashioned
steelyards hold their own. I can re
member how popular they were with
certain farmers’ wives when I was @
boy in the country and what a delight
it was to me to be allowed to try my
hand at weighing a roll of butter or &
bag of wool. But even then the women
and children were the only persons whe
seemed to take much stock in steel
yards. The tradesmen who bought our
produce very flatly said that the figures
represented by steelyards not only
couid but did tell lies, and they pro-
ceeded to weigh all our stuff over again
on scales that were supposed to have
the quality of truthfulness,
“Up to the present day steelyards
have had the reputation of being unre-
liable, but in spite of their ill repute
people still buy them. Just why so
many householders and tradesmen re-
tain their fondness for an antiquated
style of weighing machine when there
are so many new and approved pat-
terns on the market is a puzzle, but
even though mystified we keep a sup-
ply on hand for the benefit of those who
stick to the old way of doing things.” —
New York Press.
Qualified to Practice.
When John Hay was crossing the
Atlantic in 1865 on his way to Paris
to serve as secretary of legation he
told the following anecdote to one of
his fellow travelers: On applying for
admission to the bar of Illinois he was
summoned to appear before a commit-
tee of prominent Chicago lawyers to be
examined as to his qualifications.
He went to the place appointed and
found the committee assembled, but
for a long time they took no notice of
the young candidate, but continued
talking vigorously together on various
subjects. At last one of the lawyers,
turning to him, said:
“Mr, Hay, what would you do if a
client should come to you with such a
case as this?” and proceeded to de-
scribe very elaborately a complicated
legal case.
“I should ask for a retaining fee of
$50,” promptly replied Mr. Hay, “and
tell him to call tomorrow.”
“Mr. Hay, you are admitted,” said
the gentleman, and with a hearty
laugh from all present the proceedings
closed.
Knew He Was Worshiped,
“In Paris Mr. Whistler and an Eng-
lish painter got into a very turbulent
argument about Velasquez at a studio
tea,” said an artist. “Mr. Whistler at
one point in the argnmeat praised him-
self extravagantly. The Englishman,
listening, sneered, and said at the end:
“It's a good thing we can't see our-
selves as others see us.’
“ ‘Isn't it, though? said Mr. Whistler,
‘I know, in my cage, { sksald grow In
tolerably conceited.’ ”
THE LAST DAY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1906
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The American chameleon, a small liz-
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The little animal has the remarkable
habit of quickly and completely chang-
ing its colors, varying from brown to
yellow or pale green. Its food consists
of insects. The little animal is perfect-
ly harmiess to higher forms of life, Is
often kept as a pet and has been worn
attached to a chain as an ornament.
The toes are provided with adhesive
pads, which enable the lizard to run
upon smooth vertical surfaces. -— St
Nicholas.
A Story of Voltaire.
One day when D'Alembert and Con-
doreet were dining with Voltaire they
proposed to converse on atheism, but
Voltaire stopped them at once. “Wait,”
sald he, “till my servants have with-
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patent by the English authorities he
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soon afterward set up a large factory
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mainc” the same as it was 200 years
before, was introduced in the colonies
during the Revolutionary war. A
sharp Yankee improved on it and set
up the first United States stocking
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will die of itself.—Crabbe.
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