A —————————————— MINERS IN AN EXPLOSION Eleven Bodies are Taken From the Col- liery at Northfork. CONCUSSION DESTROYS BRATTICES. A Disaster in a West Virginia Mine Caused By | Gas Catching Fire From th: Lamp of a Miner The Flash Fired Six Kegs of Blast- | ing Powder Brattiscs Wrecked, Cutting ofi Supply of Air. North Fork, W. Va, disastrous gas and powder explosion OC ( Special) \ | curred in the Big Four mine of the Al goma Coal and Coke Company here Lester, need James Rockie, a negro miners were caught in the ‘ eng John Hungarian miner, and 15 mine were recovered and more taken bodies recovered are those of Lester and | Later 11 bodies $1X to be out, The! remam 10 negroes H F (eo. Cy i Geld YY EY Frankeniic a, a Bun Gaspie, a Hungarian miner, ceeded in crawling over the fallen coal and slate to the lights of party They nearly suffocated by the and have beer are both badiy Frankenfield was unable to tell his story. Fin more than where the heard the took place entrance. to the owing to the to retrace trance. finally fresh air [he cumulation lamp of a 1 This powder i The exnl brattic towar out the air ro hind the de There the two mule J Stewart tioned the a quarter explos first about attempted HACTS, expl e a in again until the safety WILCOX DECLINED TO ESCAPE. Alleged Murderer of Ella Cropscy Had a Chance to Get Out of Jail Elizabeth Cite, N mg the from the county of exit subject Wilcox, the fan sty Ella sheriff and cover the ne cox told ti in the sertion Lropsey ’ ; prison *H 1 wa an appropriat by the last Payne & Co, Miller & Sor & Co burg and Phi bidders if construchon mission architest, Je delphia Bernard constru AS50C1A teres decid make it bul $e 2 Railroad Men Want More. Rapids, Iowa (Specia Chief of th Cedar Clark Railway statement that employes of all in the West will make a united « for increased He dec present talk of widespread stril “unwarranted sensationalism strike will occur.” said Mr. Clar} til all other means have exhausted, and then only thirds vote of members of the organma tion involved.” Did He Threaten the President? Cincinnati (Special).—~The police are Grand Conductors, « wages % ) i entirely wen ¥ upon a two holding Joseph Schmitz, aged 40 years, on a charge of loitering until they can | investigate a statement that he has | threatened to take the life of Presylent | Roosevelt. Schmitz was arrested Sat urday on complaint of two elderly sis. ters{ who said that he had entered their premises and insisted on staying there Ihe police are now looking for persons | to whom he said to have made a | threat against the President. is Skelctons on a Raliroad Track Washington, D. C. (Special). Work men engaged in improvements on the | Benning race track near this city, un- | earthed the skeletons of 28 human bo- dies. The section in which the bodies | were found was probably the burial | ground of one of the plantations which existed in this locality before the war. Justice Gray Dead. Lynn, Mass. {Special).— Justice Hor | ace Gray, who recently retired froin the United States Supreme Bench, died at his home, in Nahan:, of paralysis. He had been in poor health for some time. | Horace Gray was appointed an asso- ciate justice of the United States Su | preme Court by President Arthur De. rember 19, 1881. He retired from the bench last spring. but his resignation was not accepted by President Roose. | velt until August 12, this year, when! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, of Massa- | chusetts, was appointed his successor, | — SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. Railroad men, it reported, are about to make a demand fer an advance in wages on all the railroads converging at New York and Jersey City, and it is said that the movement is a general one, including also Western lines I'he annual session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was be gun Des Moines, Ia. The of the grand sire, reviewing the work of the year, was submitted William King, a farmhand, murdered James Freeman adopted son of his employer, oi is in report confessed an | whom | | was jealous he steamer Antilia brought to New which was wrecked on the Bahamas. Lieutenant John R mitted suicide Morris, U.S. N in his stateroom on | Boston harbor Policeman Isa: of Camden N. 1, and y wounded while attempting to capture Dan Dan a Negro, the Osler, a few days ago om the cruiser Olympia in Sheve ' seriously was shot one of assailants of Ihe ne narrowly escaped mob violence breaking steep grade on lorado Springs aun away of freight Santa Col, with a passenger Fe resulted 5 the Wil h three trammmen were another I'he the St. Louis Attorney Folk bribery mst jured ti] till seriou grand aga tO Keep then habeas Foreign. em Hage and 6HL000 by floods query of ment the Gor stuted that either Ch dellamy Storer i J. Hill would be acceptabl: States ambassador According to last year's census, population of the administrative county of London was 4.536.541. while Greate london showed an additional popula tion of 6,500,000. The city's outstand ing debt was $231.344.358% During the recent German Army raneuvers a system of wireless teleg raphy was used, to the secrets of which visitors were not admitted An anti-Semitic outbreak 14 report ed to have occurred at Czenstochowa, in Poland, in which 14 Jews and 1 gen darme were killed Sir Thomas Lipton has decided in favor of earlier races for the America’s Tower, or $4 the steadier winds, Emperor William, in saying good. in three Americans— President Roosevelt, Mayor Seth Low. of New York, and Andrew D. White, the ing his court, Financial, Consolidated Lake Superior is weaker. Pennsylvania hauled last week only 208 tons of anthracite, A big melon for New York Central stockholders is ripening, A Stock Exchan®e seat sold in New York on Wednesday for $81,000. Money 10 per cent. in New York and 6 per cent. in Philadelphia. The Sub Treasury has taken from New York banks this week $4.723.500. Swift & Co. directors have declared ! a quarterly dividend of 1 3-3 per cent, | Al Wm cn. A ——— C—O ———— A ————————"— LIEU. PEARY HEARD FROM Famous Artic Explorer Coming Back After Five Years, WAS FOUND BY THE RELIEF SHIP. | He Makes No Mention Of The Result of His De. | termined and Prolonged Efforts to Reach i the Pole, Peary Sailed From New York, | July 4, 1898, With the Determination to Add | to the World's Knowledge of those Regions, | New York the Lieut of well, they ( Jit from that party { Special) news Robert | ex but have | ind return to ti OIL not seen for four years I his news was contained in a dispatch | Peary by Herbert L Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic lub, who left on the midnight train for doston, whence he will : Breton, t} ved from go to Sydney, to greet the explorer upon I cted that the hich returning, thre «Cr 1S XD £ pe idward, On Ww Peary is reach Sy My dnev within two or t ana Bridgman is due CONTROL OF THE ART WORLD. American Millionaires Are Buving Up Europe's Treasures Fine Collections. * TOWNS DESTROYED BY FIRE. Every County im the Western Part of Wash ington Said to Be in Flames. Woman Guilty of Witcheraft, i le, P: 5 In crimm Special) the Cum Mrs. Sa has been con beriand county rah McBride, of this city victed of witcheraft Ihe testimony was overwhelming against her. Sentence was suspended. his remarkable verdict, which recalls the rare old “blue Jaws” under which witches were burned in the vicinity of Salem, Mass, is said to be unique in modern criminal annals. The formal charges in the indictment upon which Mrs. McBride, a woman of (0 years, was tried, stipulated that she in dulged in “fortune-teiling, necromancy and false pretenses.” Haitian lasurgent General Killed, Port an Prince, Haiti (By Cable) — General Chicoye, of the Firminist forces, who was defeated at Petit Goave on August 3, and cet fire to that town be- fore evacuating it, and who was subse quently arrested near Jacmel, was exe- | cuted at Jacmel, Wednesday, September 10, after having been tried by a military Quakes on Alaska’s Const. | Seattle, Wash, (Special). Passengers | on the steamer Humboldt report that 17 along the coast hetween Muir and | The shock | an unfinished building at a salmon can. | nery and badly frightened a number of | Chinese fishermen. Tailor Bay was! filled with ice jarred from Brady glacier, | Tens of wee fell into the water choking | it almost to the point of preventing nav- | NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Wilson Pleased With Crops, Secretary Wilson has returned from a West agricultural conditions trip through the and st mma ized tlie in the States he visited These States included Nebraska, IHinois, Indiana and crops were generally region. “There will he said. “Corn now 0! lowa, Ohio He sad abundant in that be a corn crop,” the way th frost “The N¢ bas ka finest on corn crop in of Kansa » and Indiana record hundreds of i the ripening of this crop parts probably is There have millions of dollars depen +3414 i ing on vear While any has realize d tle bit late the Crop 15 a danger of an now be considered over ay not quality is rd breaker with State be a splendid the re i dromth recy and, Southern vield heavy In the somewhat affect per as & Very South the ed has corn Crop thie #iry ; at \ the wheat crop of the West 1s also very fine and what may ‘ To Be Open Every Sass propos. or purely internal difference 1s vital this line axe The exporters in numerous taken rican 1 and in answer to n= sieps have heen tO CiCar ambiguity Exporis Are Felling Oil. Ihe total the United States for the eight months ended Au gust 31 were $821,685, 108 against $030. 120,341 for the same period last year The imports were $614.105.387, against $70,650,756 last year. For this period the exports of breadsiufis from the United States amounted to $108.604,576 For the same period of 1901 the total exports of provisions were $100.841.036, against $124,077.17 for the same period of the year belore, Another Postolfice Robbed. I he Postoffice Departinent has been College, S. C., was broken into and Newsy Items of Interest, The body of the late A. R. Shepherd will be brought for burial from Mex- ico to Washmgton despite the many difficulties in the way. The Postoffice Department has been notified that the postoffice at Pittsheld, Wie, and Hazlehurst, Pa, were broken into and robbed. The naval board which investigated the damage to the cruiser Braoklyn reported that she would be laid up for three months and it would cost yp too to repair her, « NEITHER SIDE WEAKENS Believed That End of Coal Miners’ Strike Is Still Far Off. IT IS NOW IN ITS NINETEENTH WEEK. (len. Giobin, in Charge of the State Troops De- nies That He is Preparing to Remove the Troops at An Early Date or That He Ex- pects Aa Order From the Governor to With- draw the Troops. Pa. (¢ began the nineteenth | . i i <HeENnancoan strike Ihe date Platt predicted i end has passed into tl | because of 1 au ceeded by “a | still far off | [he { during uid reiteration the be wWeeK Wo ( made sed by nearly } United ging them LARGEST ORCHARD IN THE WORLD Fruit Trees to Be Planted on 5600 Acres in Missouri. . Woman Cuts Down Murderer’s Body. B Br Ailied in An “Auto” Crash. Mrs wile Of the W Seno Nevada, Alameda. Cal She o (Special) United States Senator from was riding fn an automobile with Henry Foote and 2 young man named Taylor, Fhrough an accident the machine ran into a telegraph pole. Mrs, Stewart was thrown against the pole with great force. and was so severely injured that death soon followed Her home was Washington, DB. C Terrible Crime in Nebrasks. Beatrice, Neb. (Special). Mrs, Kate Fournell, living with her parents, near £0004 ne was Killed at #4 wi Steinhauer, was feloniously assavited by tramps, who then killed her and drag- ged her body into the yard, where they set fire to the clothing. The woman had been left in ¢harge of the home by ler mother and brother, who discovered her dead body when they returned. | The men evidently had broken open the house, which they looted alter com. mitting the crime. The community is excited and if the perpetrators shall be | captured they will probably be lynched, Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable). The Government has published a decree de- | claring Gen. Manval Matos, leader of | the present revolutic. .rv movement in | Venezuela, to be a traitor and ordering | him to be tried on the charge of piracy ‘and for having offered control of the finances of the Government of Venezuela, in case of the success of his movement, to outside canitalists on the same basis ae prevails in Egypt. The facts of this alleged offer were reported by the Ven- | ezuelan Consul at Liverrool, i i i Procisims Matos Traitor. 1 WARSHIPS TO THE ISTHMUS. For a Permanent Occupation of Panama Im. portant Move. ID. «( naten { Senerinl On, Pp ial Robbers Shoo! Tenncssee Farmer New Consumption Cure A Heroine of Poems ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST 3M tery 1801 as been of New Orleans, It is came her ficted by grand jury ed 1 over which was not Mr. Cha relary hat she INTO POSSESSION shand s S200.000 of weal myentoned Hamlin {reacury during ond term of President Cleveland, was defeated in the primaries in Massachu- setts the Democratic nommation for governor Idaho Populists state ticket The price of coke and $13 per ton It is again reported that the Portu puese government, in need of funds, has pawned the crown jewels, includ- ing the diamond-encrusted scepter of Don Juan IV. valued at $5.000.000, The railway authorities of India, de- spite test trials showing the superiority of British locomotives, have given an other order for 20 locomotives to Ger. manuiacturers The sensational trial of the man Voi- in Paris, ‘once convicted of mur ities S Assisiant sed of the the sec OOF nominated a m Chicago is $12 Earthquake shocks occurred in Alaska along the coast between Muir and Yakutat. General Firmin urges his followers in Hayti to fight to the end against the provisional government. revolo- tionists are greatly excited and very bitter against the General. The Austrian Prince Francis Joseph of Braganses was exonerated in Lan. don of the charge of misconduct under the criminal law amendmnt. The corporation of Dublin adopted a resolution protesting againstthe Crimes Act as "an ontrage and insult offered - TT Ee Bade
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