AWFUL DISASTER IN FRENCH MINE Nearly 1,200 Men Reported Killed By An Explosion. A NUMBER WERE BROUGHT OUT. and Flames Belched From the Mouths of the Pits, Burning Maoy to Death Scene in the Chamte: of Lesih Ihceicribabe ing the teived from Li ome clue to tl t was stated th iti, AN Cngineer, game Hecor LATEST NEWSINSHORTORDER DOMESTI Was Still Conscious of Everything. from the VO prevent deathlike being bu man died and was were | ¢ f the embalmer prevented The wi sumably candles absence lage with pois insuring death dawn two women sitting up with the corpse were started by a wild and hurrying to the death chamber found the corpse sitting up. \ er onous embalming Just before $ 4 ENrick, ———— To Maintaia Constitution. Albany N. Y. (Special). «~The Con stitutional League of the United States was incorporated “to assist in maintain ing and enforcing the Constitution of the United States of America in all i provisions and throughout its jurisdic tion.” The directors are Henry E. Tre main, of Hillview, Warren County: Wil liam B. Derrick, of Flushing; J. E. Mil holland, of Lewis, Essex County; Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, and An. drew B, Humphrev, of New York say te m French polic wean conference. Leon Bourgeoise lead the list of statesmen mentioned for new premier British War Scretary Holdane, in in troducing the army cstimates in Parl ment, amounting to nearly $150,000,000, said the Liberals wanted greater effici- ency at less expenditure seems to Harry S. Simons and Franklin Ever hart, Americans, were arrested in Lone don on charges of conspiracy and ob- taining large sums of money by fraud. The Protestant missionaries at Sui- chou, Province of Kiangsi, have been es corted to Kiukiang., The Catholic mis- stonaries at Suichou refused to jeave. It is reported that Russian Minister of the Interior Durnovo has issued instruc. tions to prevent the election of Radicals to the national assembly. The Marchioness of Corsini, formerly Princess Barberini, was killed by the overturning of an automobile in Rome. IN PHILIPPINES Remarkble Fight in Volcano Cra‘er, HUNDRED MOROS KILLED. of the Moro Con: Assisted American and Sallors lo Attacking and Ane and a Naval Ensign Wounded stabulary Soldiers Bravely the Almost Impregoable Fastucss on a Moua- talo 2,100 Feet High on the island of Jolo. raters lake craters of UNLry around open and the top being eminent 2 defendable For eight months past the Moros held the crater of Mount Dajo, and from there they sailed forth on journeys of depredation. The completeness nf their rout and the terrible punishment in- flicked upon them, as well as the pres- ence of Generals Wood and Bliss, leads to the conclusion that theattack was well planned and carefully executed. Mision Snake Scared Children, Washington, (Special) «Charles S Miller, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was year's imprisonment in defanlt of $200 fine by Judge Kimball, of the District Police Court, for frightening school children with a rubber snake. Miller was be fore the District Police Court, charged with having pursued children with a rubber snake, which he threatened to put about their necks, sentenced to a LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Making War on the White Death. For Cicas Paper Money. Varginia, the methods he strengthen the Hepburn Rate alleged railroad d n his state Roosevelt statehood bill and figh n evils 1 mies of President killed the by amending it ack to the House. The House passed 408 private pension | bills, The jury in the case of ex-State Sena- {tor George E. Green, of New York, jon trial for conspiracy to defraud | government in connection with the sale of time-recording clocks to the Postoffice Department, brought mm a verdict of not guilty. John D. King, chairman of the Rural Carriers’ Examining Board of Civil Ser- vice Examiners, died in Washington. forcing Secretary Shaw submitted to Congress an estimate of $027,000, for a cable from Key West, Fla, to Guantanamo, Cuba, and thence to the Panama Canal zone. The Postoffice and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bills were completed by the House come mittees having charge of them, Col. John W. Bubb has been selected to be brigadier general, to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of General Carr. Another contribution of $10000 was sent by the Christian Herald for the famine sufferers in Northern Japan. OUTBREAK IN NEW YORK LIFE AFTER HAMILTON Blame Upon Jaran, A Charge That the Latier, With the Support of the Unlied is Enforcing ) Slates and Great Ur tiin, Program of Progressive ’ A b Reform May be Necessary to Depose the Empress Dowager. ¥eluge For Missionaries GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR 710M Pathetic Appeal Made By Overseer Voliva to the Dowiciles, FUN T0 WRECK TRAINS Four Men Arrested Near Passaic Confess Hav. ing Made Several Attempts, disaster gin He succeded in bringing the fess than a car length rack 0 a stop nd iron if plates were piled on track Eighty-cent Gas For New York Albany, N. Y,, (Special).—The Senate passed the bill making in Greater New York Bo cents per 1,000 feet. The bill now goes to the Governor, it having already passed the Assembly The measure excepts several wards in Brooklyn, for which it provides a sliding scale, he rate for gas Police Graft in St Louls. St. Louis, Mo, (Special) ~Two ser- geants and cight patrolmen were sus- pended from the police department by Acting Chief of Police Gillaspy, pend- ing investigation of charges, it is said, that will be formally preferred against them before the police board. All the men were until recently on duty in the Central District, which is in the center of the grand jury investigation into charges of “grafting.” Paid lim, Emperor William's Thanks Smsll Declared Golly a separat five persons 1 3 GUsSlyY WOounaoe a bullet Charged With Killing Aged Wile, Beileville, Ont. (Special )«~Fred Kleng- beil, aged 70, a farmer near here, is in jail charged with having beaten his wife to death. Klengbeil admits having a quar. rel with his wife and beating her with his hands only. The body of the old woman was horribly battered City Ownership Wias in Seattle. Seattle, Wash, (Special) Judge Wil liam Moore, municipal-ownership dandi- date for mayor, was clected by the small majority of 18 votes, after one of the closest fights in the history of the city. John Riplinger, Republican candidate, was badly cut in many of the wards, and ran far behind his ticket, the remainder of which, with the exception of a council man or two, was elected. The leaders of the Municipal Ownership party charge gross frauds in several of the wards,
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