SEVENTY-THREE LIVES LOST
NEAR. ATLANTIC CTY
An Awful Disaster On Pennsy’s
Electric Line.
PEOPLE DROWN IN THE CARS.
Pleasure-Bound Families
Wiped Out.
Several
ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.
A Turned-in Rail on the Bridge Over
the
Two
“Thoroughfare Causes
the Track
the
Train to Jump
Cars Filled With Passengers Drop
the Water at High Tide
Third Car Hangs
Into and
Are Submerged
on an Abutment Long Enough for
Some of Occupants to Escape.
the accident and in
boats,
at once put out
At Work.
crew of a wrecking
train are at work raising the sub
merged cars. The bridge is about
15 feet above the water.
Several causes are asigned for the
accident, One is that the rails spread;
another that the rails were not pro
perly locked when the open bridge
was closed, after a pleasure yacht
which bad just passed through.
The accident, however, was proba
bly due to a rail “turning in.” It
appears that the rail, which was an
outside one on the right hand sid«
coming down, must have been out
plumb about an eighth of an inch
The sharp flange of the electric train
caught this and twisted it inward
Had it spread instead of twisting in
ward the never would hay
have happened This twist thre:
the first car off the and
the water. The result that
second and third
with it.
The third c¢
the abutment
hung poised
a
the
more got
unged
Divers
Divers and the
of
accident
track
was
canght on
where it
ar, however,
of the brid;
for a
frantic rush
rear door
minute, i'h
of the
Prob:
and
fore
Was
for
or as
Ovi other
Of Rescue.
f if wa
An Early Morning Injunction Pro-
cured to Restrain the Removal of
the Prosecuting Official by the
Executive — Assistant District At.
torney Suspended.
After a
Attorney
who
San Francisco (Special).
day of excitement, D
Langdon, of Francisco,
Thursday night
office by
was apparent] a
had gaine a ft
officers
istriet
an
was suspended from
May
victorious
acting or Gallagher,
posi-
and
emporary
tion,
advantage over and
wught his removal,
had
the
for
politicans who
after , Langdon
intention seek
se ral city offi
misdemeanors
Almost at ‘daybreak an attorne;
appeared at the residence of Superior
Judge Zavell and obtained orde
temporarily re Abrahan
Ruef, the political the
acting mayoi succeed
Langdon, from with the
district attorney's
Judge Zawell set the
hearing one week from Fi
restraining order was ser
and the board of ors at an
early hour, and Langdon and his
assistant, Francis J. Heney, was not
disturbed in their official capacity,
yunced
indictment of
and
tO
Corsa felonies
“an
straining
boss, whom
inted to
erfering
Offi
case for 1
ay. The
I on Ref
supervyi
ourt won
Ruel as di
Worried By |
‘hen the jury }
in or strict attornes
eputy Sheriff.
sane }
acting under hi
being Ruef's belief
Heney was armed The court
warned the deputy to cease annoying
that
Ruef then attempted to address the
indge as an er
Heney obhiected to
such Judge Grah
pass on the jase =
would not at that t
Of court. hut
mming
declined
that LF
settle the dis.
one as an off
He refused to hear
the subieet
as
to
ime
pute, or recognize any
of the court
any further
Ruef
an atiorne)
clared that he wi
examination
ff «
cor
argument on
obtained permi
as at the bar
hed to proceed with
into qualifica
grand ymen
errupted, saying that the
that he intended to pre
grand jury
the rges
an
ertain
int
tions o
Heaney
shi
f11y
firs ¥
the
upporting
misdemeanor
this juncture
from U. 8. Webb, attorney
for the State, who declared that
should not permit sguel
to he bhafore the
jury, which was present, as
might disqualify them, and ?
averred that there was a possibilits
‘hat they had already been disquali
fied
Webb then asserted that he intend
vl to assume charge of the matters
now be fore the court.
was evidene
of felor
Ruef
ohlectios
10)
ch
against
another
ger
the court
itatemonts
and
it
Must Please
Brussels (By
tor of the theater at
the
Audience,
The
Namui
the
Cable) direc-
will put
upon audiences onus of ac
cepting "or
the
future pe
rejecting neweomers on
the
and
1H
aractors
the \ will be
this the subsequent
wo will de-
of that theater In
actor
stage
rmAncos gach
given a chance
different of
actress
appear in
Then a
fo tren
fnte oof
Wi
Ey
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told,
Metealf, of
‘ommerce and
Francisco
a full report on
affed ting the Japanese ther
Charles W. Btiles, James |
N. LL. Btone and virector Nort
av named as the tariff ex
perts to go to Germany and confer
the
Labor,
Investienat
1) part
wil
to
the gitus
erry,
1 boon
BOTH NATIONS
MAKE DEMANDS
Affair With Japan Getting Quite
Serious.
SEES SECRETARY ROOT.
Formally Re-
quests That the Subjects of the
Mikado in California Be Accord.
ed Their Treaty Rights
Indignant,
MR. AOKI
Japanese Ambassador
Is
Viscount
at
shington (Special}.
Jai ador,
Root
ambas a
anese
4
with Secretary at
re
government,
that Japan
were ac
the
ifornia
rights under
the
d the
right
pub
See
with the tariff experts there.
the
fas A Grievance,
$ 05y } aide
toot Also |
SUES FOR HIS SKIN.
Man Charges More Was Taken Than |
He
Cincinnati
largained To Give.
OO. (Special
Doll, who alle that an
wer
than
from
much greater
was taken
grafti
ng
{0.00060
contract,
for g da
8 Atkins, A
and John C. Oliver, the latter two
rominent Cincinnati physicians and
Irgeons
The plaintiff that he
at a strip of skin one } uix
hould be taken from his leg, but
vhi ie was unde:
stic akin
George
SAYS agreed
YY inches
the Influence of
ent from both
the extent 42 inches
grows out an anto-
in which Atkins was
was for his benefit
of
ile accident
and it
8 taken
niured,
he skin
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Ww
A Collision At Sea.
New York (Special)
it sea, which resulted
ng of William
he ship F
Francisco, was
of that
A collision
the drown
seaman on
from San
reported by the offi
ship on her arrival in
port When off Barnegat, on
Jersey Coast, last Tuesday, the
Sargent was in collision with an un-
known schooner during a dense fog
The schooner struck the Sargent on
the port quarter, carrying away a
nortion of her rail. In clearing away
the wreckage Scott was knocked
overboard and drowned.
in
Seott,
Ora
this
thao
Civil Service League,
Haven, Ct. (Special) «~The
National Civil Service Reform League
vill hold its twenty-sixth annual
jetting In this city November 18
nd 20. The president of the league,
vhao will make the principal address
{f the firat day's sossion, is Daniel
olt Gilman, president of the Carne
fe Institution. Other addresses will
os made by Chas J lonaparte, see.
etary of the navy: Henry Groone,
of the United Statea Civil Service
Commission, and Mayor W. ¥. Hen
ney, of Hartford.
Now
Wr
THe NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic,
The t
into the denth of
an
room
in the
William 8
who was
in
returned
coroner's jury ingue
Stewart
found
saratoga
verdict
of Toronto, (
dead in hi
Hotel, Ch
Of
thie
ICAEO, iH
uleide
1 3
Wwiine arral
City Police
properly
gnaed
Court,
in the Lond 1d
charged i
the
wag discovered that John
nie Vepekd
caring for i1
who
210.000 |
I has au
disbribution of
tobacco seed
officers
the
who. |
military
order, arrested bur
and the treasu
Germany, and took
has been identified as
Voight, an ex-convict
After recent
of the Dominican revo
Monte Cristi by the troops of Presi-
dent the of the
former surrendered par- |
doned
Fearing trouble on October 30, the |
anniverss of the grant of the Rus
sian tion. the garrison of St
Petersburg will be strengthened by
three regiments
Takaheshi, the special
agent of the Japanese government in |
London, savas the present bank
in New York and London is so
that the Japanese find it less
and cheaper to get their
wick. all the
§ William
complete defent |
lutionists near |
iE
the
Caceres r part
were
» PY
greats
and
financial |
rat
high
trouble
§
money ai
$
Buelow not
approve of the attacks made by the
German press upon M. Clemenceau,
the new French premier.
Ralauli, bandit, has informed
the Sultan of Morocco that he has
charged his brother to restore order
in the Arzilla district.
Waldemar Poulsen, the Danish in-
ventor, claims to have discovered a
method of wireless telegraphy which
cannot be “tapped.”
The French Cabinet reassembled,
but soon adjourned, as the new
Premier will not declare his policy
for several days.
Mailer Drevins has been given an
independent command at 8t. Dennis
Baron von Tachirschy, the Ger
man minister of foreign affairs, and
Senor Titton!, the Italian minister
if foreign affairs, have agreed
renew the triple alliance.
A general court-martial has been
called to try Capt. FF. W. Cole, of
the Quartermaster’s Department, or
the charge of complicity in alleged
irregularities,
Chancellor von does
the
TRAIN REBOUNDS
INTO THE OHIO RIVER
a Freight
| & DAY FOR THANKSGIVING
| President Roosevelt Tssuc His Pro-
clamation.
shington (f
| The Pittsburg Special Jumps
Siding and Locomotive Recoils Down
River Embankment
Turn Over on Sides.
Two Coaches
Pittsburg.
DROPPED FROM WINDOWS,
I
At
vel
Fire
Four Persons And Many Hurt
re broke out on groun
from some unknown
o'clock
cause
Soldier At 8 Years Old.
Washington (Special) The con- |
:
was the
War
gettled in favor
Wash
boy in Compat
Voluntes
hy
ag to who
vil
Seattle,
irummer
urth Jowa
1862. at 3
} months He wae born Oct
listed
After
honorably
gOY
Office
and
are
fon
DApers
ations
correct
Partridges Intoxicated.
Plainville, Ct
weal hunters while tramping through
the woods two miles east f hore
aptured five partridges, which were |
flopping around the ground in a
velplosa condition, Investigation
howed that the birds had been
feeding on a cluster of copeberries
and were hopelessly intoxicated.
Killed And Money Missing.
Goshen, Ind. (Special). Mrs. Lou
Fuller, wife of a farmer and stock-
buyer, living north of Goshen
hot and killed while in bed. A hun-
red and (Wenty-seven dollars belong
ing to her is missing. Mrs. Faller’
ushand save he was aroused fror
“ig sleep by two shots and ranning
the head of the stairs was con
ronted by a burglar, who order:
“im to return to his room A win
tow was found broken onen Joww
tairs. Noah Baker and wife, who
live across the road from Fuller, say
they heard but one shot,
{8pecial) Some
©
wy
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PRE
:
Fike
SIDENT CHANGES CABINET
Straus’ Appointment Comes As a
Surprise.
Req
Appointment of Straus.
the Cabin hang only one,
Secre-
is news
ooome
Labor
have been re
1nentls
entually be
authori-
wan
Washing
ian
wot
fo
the
moet
Representatives
tude of
the
tation of the
has made Mr. Meteal
tremely embarrassing.
deed, belloved that if this present
changn the Cabinet bad not in-
eluded his transfer from his present
nosition the Navy he would have
resigned before long
———
favor of
interpre
{’'s position 6x-
and it is, ine
in
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FINANCIAL WORLD.
September
of
earnings
$721,677 gross
Atchison’s
showed a gain
and $1R87.340 net
The fallure was announced a
London broker who traded in Ameri-
an stocks
C. I. Hudsoa says ‘Roading is
still too high 1 think $65 a share
1 good price for it”
Since its organization United States
Steel has taken §$350,000,0006 from
arnings aad spent it in permanent
improvements,
of