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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, |
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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.
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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