A COLLISION OF BIG BATTLESHIPS The Alabama Plunges Into the Kentucky. THE LATTER SHIP WAS DAMAGED. Tho Illinois Narrowly Avolds Getting Inte the Taagle—A Series of Mishaps to Admiral Evans’ Batileshlp Squadron In New York Bay The Kearsarge amd Kentucky Run aground Off West Bank Light. New York ( Special ) f the United States Navy got BILLION FROM FACTORIES. immense Share of Americass ln World's Commerce. 1008. St ment the va imported it $520,000 mont VIiOus ye for THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. DOMESTIC In the 12 months just closed the rai ways of the country have ordered 341,315 freight cars, and 3,289 passenger Cars. L.ocomaotives, 2.5 130, 1 1 0,205 locomotives In 1004 the hgures were; nger Cars, 2,213; 30; passe fre feclared @ commonwealth, An 18 3 gineering We rary Hoey \ wre large piece a Ked & locked trains, Attorneys ler under sentence Freach Diplomat Reception. v D. C 3 +h tie ception lan President re of the diplomatic corps view of the withdrawal lan government of 10 Taig President Cas t be resumed, M. Maubourguet, the ezuel ceived with all th to hi if there had been no trouble between the two countries, This latest action on the part of President Castro has municated French but what course it will take here yea M wWouG Ven re 1 representative, was honors appropriate rank as been com to the government, it not known Smallpox Ties Up | hones. Fort Wayne, Ind. ; pox in the telephone exchange tied up When Man. ager Mollering was informed that Lil han Walbolt had the discase he notified the health officers and they sent the five girl operators he jeft their thing, hands fumigated, rived home each was examined by her family physician and vaccinated The force reported again after the exchange room had been fumigated. { Special) Small s the service for five hours Before the girl head none . faces and When they ar were kish % i Danas ints continues A ngs have been bu ly, and 20 buildi 15t week sank in Indo-China, missing. onsider as Serious raise irritating o conference it is ment will isle Cnr! French British steamer Saigon River, her crew Britain d¢ - (yerman Germa are Great the 1 ete {opkins, quartermaster of Second Dragoon Guards at was mentioned war stores scan- Captain J. 1 he British Se with dal, committed suicide, dritish officials say Germany confines her demands at the coming conference to opening Morocco to foreign trade on an equal basis there will be no clash. in connection that so long as Armed strikers at Riga, Livonia, seized a rubber factory which the troops brom barded, and the strikers were finally forced surrender. More than 100 killed or mjured. Dr. Steuart, of the Southern Nigerian government, was killed and his body mu- tilated and partially devoured by canni- bals in Nigeria In a letter written by Admiral Ro jestvensky, and published in the Novoe Vremya with official approval, the charge iv made that the British fleet was ready to destroy the Russinn fleet if it had WO escaped the Japs 10 TWENTY-ONE PEOPLE DEAD IN MINE Gas Explodes in the Large Workings at Coaldale, W. Ya. OCCURRED IN THE COOPER SHAFT. Earth Shaken as by Earthquake for Miles Around--Those Who Were Not Killed Instant. ly Are Supposed to Have Succumbed to the (Gas That Soon Filled the Entire Mige—la the Heart of the Pocahontas Field. W, : were Va. (Special).—Twenty- killed shaft of the Cooper i W. Va, body had been re- ediately following the ex- is heard for several t to work 10 ex- in an explosion Mine ale, Up to SEVERAL PEOPLE HURT BY EXPLOSION Boy Throws Dyssmite Package io Phila deiphia. package . 1 Eh hen the youngster took to could «top . \ pouce and before the man rred. The the identity of with anar ie to \ 1 1iCal JOKer Allegheny Dentist Said to Have Abstalned That Long. Pittsburg (Special) For 28 days, it is stated, Dr. S. M Allegheny, has gone without food. “Reform health methods” are said responsible for the starving of Dr. Stauffer. His physical condition was not the best last fall, it is said, and he de- termined upon drastic methods to build up his constitution, which was what is untechnically known as “run down.” When his health under Ye no-food treat ment becomes what he desires, whether the time be long or short, he will start a campaign for the relief of an over- worked stomach. Stauffer, a dentist, of 0 be Speyer Succeeds Yerke London (By Cable) At a meeting of the board of the Underground Elec. tric Railways Company Edgar Speyer was elected chairman of the company in succession to the late Charles T. Yerkes, Sir George Gibb, general manager of the Northeastern Railroad, was elected de- puty chairman and managing director of “the Metropolitan District Railway Company, vacated by the death of Mr. Yerkes. B. W. Perks continues as de- puty chairman of the company. The board passed a resolution recording its deep regret at the death of Mr. Yerkes. NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY, New Yorx Crry, N. Y. For the months, and the within three years, the jewelry of Schwartz Brothers, at 1368 Broadway, in the heart of the “Tenderloin” was robbed, and about $4000 worth of diamonds, rings and watches stolen The robbery was most daring, as part of the city is the busiest anc t} most 1 hroughout th entire night. Working du a f rainstorm, when m pedesirians sought shel entrance | ing gate th: ront door and through a screen that the front de half-inch within three time store second time seventh district, Wert this ‘ . i 1 i pi terrific y had wed an the approach to the heavy wire der. hey set escaped with the ice arnved, gunboat Ben- » been awarded ge oman who insi created a t officers being carry her out and send her to of Detention. Director Walcott, of the Geological Survey, was before the Joint Committee of the Senate and House, explaining the printing that is done for his bureau, The Philippine Commission has ex tended for five years the time during hich the Spanish language may be used the Philippine courts, The question as to the power of Con- gress to control msurance corporations was referred to the Judiciary Committee of the House. February 17 is the date set for the marriage of Miss Alice Roosevelt to Con- gressman Longworth. Secretary Bonaparte has promised to ttend the presentation by the citizens of Charleston of a silver service to the crui- ser bearing that name, Henry W. Furniss, of Indianapolis, minister to Hayti, was married in Bahia to a white woman of beauty and culture. Paul Frederick called at the White House to get the President to collect a $2.000000 claim for him, He did not get in, Associate Justice Peelle was sworn in as chief justice of the United States Court of Claims. The Supreme Court affirmed the de- cion of the Court of Appeals of Ken tucky affirming the conviction of Charles Howard for the murder of Governor Goebel. Secretary Bonaparte has acted on the verdict of the court-martial in the gun- bout Bennington case, which sentenced Commander Young to be reprimanded. * sted on seeing the scene at the White require’ the House to PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE WAR SAD HOLIDAYS FOR RUSSIANS. The Poor Have No Mopey For Christmas Feasts, Cars. The Step Taken as 8 Precautionary Measure Conference Cannot Be Foretold. place i 20,000 fre ight { 000, with manufactu ¢ ew ny : . being agre she ot the oO of 00 years, cd a scale wi ers in the Ohio comp tockh y O per cent To Anticipate laterest. Washington, D. C retary Shaw announced that the (Special) .— anti the Department will of due February 1, sovernment bonds Coupons due on date will be paid at once on presen on at Treasury Department and sveral Sub-Treasury offices in- checks on registered 3 per cent bonds of 1008 wil mailed within a few days and on registered 4s of 102% within a day or two after the closing of the books on January 15. The amount of interest anticipated is about $1,700,000 pate payment interest 1000, on the be Fire at Apalachicols, Tallahassee, Fla. (Special). —A dis patch from Apalachicola announces that fire ghere destroyed the largest portion of the business district. The losses will aggregate $100,000. SHINN President Never Said It Washington, D. C. (Special). Cable dispatches from London that President Roosevelt had expressed “his hearty sympathy” with the Liberal party in Great Britain to D. N. Mason, a can didate for Parliament, mduce no di rect statement {rom the President. The President makes it plain, however, that he gave to nobody an expression of sym- pathy with any political party of Great Britain or with the candidates of any party. CLEVELAND GETS $12,000 SALARY. To Abolish Rebating in the Big loscrasce Companies. the ex- for have adjuster at 18 as an ar be. vies. That there a great desire to stand to the admitted fact It questions i tween thi in the pi ft emergency the compat gether and present a solid " wn the part § re and different the com- referred to id be quickl n to the policyhold- one matiers springing up between panies regularly rhich, if an independent arbiter, won settled with satisfactu Cre. Washington (Special).—~It developed here that about $18,000 was taken from an express pouch between Atlanta, Ga. and New York. The Southern Express Company received the package at Au- gusta; from thence it went to Columbia, S CC. and it arrived in Washington ear- ly Sunday morning. The Adams Ex press Company then sent it to New York, and there the loss was discovered. Of ficials of the express company are making an investigation “Witches” Garroted. Havana (By Cable) Domingo Bo- court, an old negro, and Victor Molina, a mulatto, were garrotted at the prison here. Both men were regarded as “witches” by their associates. Their crime was a hideous murder of a white baby, Zoila Diaz, for the purpose of pro. curing the heart of a white nae child, which the “witches” prescribed ag a poultice for a certain woman as a cure for barrenness, The child's body was found, smoked and salted, weeks after the crime. The executions passed off promptly
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