SREDY
THE YAQUI INDIANS
‘One American and Eleven Mexicans
Murdered.
RAILROAD MN ARE IN TERROR
Employes of the Southern Pacific Exe
cited Over News That the Yaquis
Are on the Warpath — Reported
Several Americans Are Among Vie-
tims of the Blood-thirsty Reds.
Nogales, Mex. {Special} .—Details
are arriving here of the massacre of
a party of Mexicans by Yaqui In-
dians near Valencia, 60 miles below
Guyamas.
Eleven Mexicans and one American
were killed and, from all accounts,
there were over a hundred Indians
in the attacking party.
The employes on the Southern Pa-
cific Railroad in that gection are
frightened. It is sald many are leav-
ing, and that the massacre may de-
jay the road to Guadalajara.
Los Angeles, Cal (Special) —Col,
HH. B. Maxson, vice president of the
National Irrigation Congress and
gecretary of the Board of Education
of Reno, Nev., who has been gspend-
ing the past few weeks in the State
of Sonora, Mex, arrived here with a
graphic story of a massacre of Mexi-
eans and Americans, which pecurred
at the little town of Lancho, on the
Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific
Railroad late Saturday afternoon.
According to the statement of
Maxson, his train stopped an hour at
Lancho. While there rumors were
received that the Yaquis were upon
the warpath and that the few peo-
ple in the peighborhood of the rail-
road were in danger. The station-
master, a man named Thompson, be-
_jittled the matter, and gaid he and
his wife would remain at their post.
The train bearing Colonel Maxson
and party had not left the station
for more than an hour when the
Yaquis descended on the little party
of Mexicans and Americans and
murdered four of them.
Station Agent Thompson and his
wife defended themselves behind the
barricaded doors of the station until
a work train appeared, when the In-
dians withdrew.
The train bearing Colonel Maxson
and party continued to a station
about 15 miles farther along the line
and then, as the signs of the upris-
ing became more alarming. the party
decided to return. The train start
ed back toward Lancho, and when
it arrived the station-house had been
burned and demolished and four hu-
man bodies lay along the track.
The party stopped a few minutes
in the hope that the survivors might
be found and taken to a place of
safety. While the train was at the
ruins of the station the Yaquis ap-
peard in the distance, but did not
some within range of the few armed
people on the train.
Not many miles along the road
the scene was duplicated. Four more
dead bodies of Mexicans and Ameri-
cans were discovered along the
tracks. The little band at this sta-
tion had been able to repulse the at-
tack of the Yaquis with the lems of
but four of thelr number. The re-
maining members of the company
refused to leave on the train, but
sald they could stand off the Indians
until the next day, when the rurales
would raech the spot and summary
justice would be meted out to the
murderers if captured.
TOWNS ARE SHAKEN DOWN.
Earthquakes Again Terrorize The
People.
Santiago, Chili (Special). — Half
of the town of Arica, in the Province
of Tacna, has been destroyed by an
earthquake, and other towns in the
neighborhood have suffered more or
less severely. ’
The seaport of Iquiqui, 120 miles
south of Arica, was not damaged.
With the recollection of the August
disaster fresh in their minds, the
people in the earthquake zone are
greatly alarmed,
London (By Cable). — Professor
Belar, of the Laibach Observatory,
telegraphs the Daily Mail that the
instruments at the observaory re
corded ancther great earthquake at
7.11 Wednesday morning. The cen-
ter of activity was 3,375 miles to the
west-southwest. He adds the sug-
gestion that the recent extraordinary
earthshocks may have dam
St. Paul's Cathedral, don.
recommends that test measure-
2 mts be {akén and repeated after
every world-shaking seismic move-
ment. ie recalls that th, roof of
the Charing Cross Railway Station
fal! the day after the instruments at
Latbach recorded a great earthquake.
JAPANESE TURNED BACK.
Many Reputed Veterans Of Milkado's
B1 Paso, Tex. (Speelalj Japanese
flocking to the Rio Grande bor-
der attempting to get into the United
. Most of them are said to have
Argo from the Japanese
ay fifty-four were refused
mn here. Later a number
Li
Joseph D. Sulsona was arranged
before the United States commis
sioner in New York and held in
$6,000 ball as a confederate of
Boehm and Ochera, who were arr
rested last week on a charge of mak-
ing and attempting to make counter-
feit peso notes of the Republic of
Columbia,
Mrs. Jeanne Trautman, wife of
Dr. Alexander Trautman, & promi-
nent physician, who was arrested on
complaint of Peter J. Hogan, who
declared she was a street walker,
who had stolen $13 from him, was
honorably discharged in a New York
police court,
A call for a second conference of
the growers and manufacturers of
cotton in October, 1907, has been
gent out by James R. MacColl, the
president of the National Association
of Cotton Manufacturers.
Former President Grover Cleve-
fand and other Princeton residents
have made application to the na-
tional government to stock Carnegie
Lake at Princeton with game fish.
A grand jury of New York has
found indictments against two for-
mer officials of the New York Lite
Insurance Company, charging forg-
ery.
An Indian massacre, in which
Yaqui Indians attacked a party of
Americans and Mexicans and killed
eight, has occurred in Mexico.
W. J. Atkinson, president of the
defunct Lincoln Bank of Morton
Park, was sent to Jail in Chicago
in default of $25,000 bail
Dr. Marker GG. Dadarian, of New
York, has been threatened with as-
sassination by the “Black Hand"
unless he gives up $10,000.
The Lackawanna Steel Company
has purchased the Ellsworth Coal
Company's properties in the Pitts
burg district,
in Dayton, O., Roy Fowler was
sentenced to dle in electric chair for
the murder of his sweet-heart.
An effort is being made in St.
Petersburg to compel the authorities
to investigate the naval seandals of
the Grand Ducal regime, which are
said to be largely responsible for the
defeat of the Russians at the battle
of the Sea of Japan.
Judge Duncan, of Ohio, in a decis-
fon rendered in the Standard Ofl cases,
decided that the probate court has no
jurisdiction to try criminal prosecu-
tions under th: Valentine Anti-trust
Law. The $5,000 fine imposed upon
the Standard Oil Company is thore-
fore invalid, as well as all the pro-
ecedings in the Probate Court. The
case will be carried to the Circuit
and Supreme Courts.
Francisco denounced the position of
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Metcalf on the Califorina school ques-
tion, declaring that state's rights is
now the paramount Issue.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, the million-
aire, has refused to make his annual
donation to the Y. M. C. A, because
of the creation of a class in real es-
eate and stock investment.
DD. J. Beresford, a brother of Ad-
miral Lord Beresford, of the English
Navy, was killed In & train wreck In
North Dakota.
Nieolal de Raylan, the
woman who masqueraded as a man,
was of poble birth and a mother.
Ten persons diel or were overs
come by the cold in New York.
The Washington and Florida ex-
press on the Southern Rallway. which
ran into the private car of Samuel
Spencer, Thanksgiving Day,
wrecked in the South, owing to a
misunderstanding over signals. The
fireman was killed and the engineer
badly scalded.
Five hunfired horses and mules
were burned in a Harper Brothers
{ivery stable, Atlanta, Ga. The loss
is about $100,000. The fire was
started by safe-blowers, who explod-
ed the safe in the office, the shock
overturning a lamp.
T. E. Brady, a Great Falls lawyer,
has been indicted by the federal
grand jury in Helena, Mont, on a
charge of unlawfully fencing a 13.~
167-acre tract of public land In Val-
ley County. .
J. Plerpont Morgan, Dr. Lyman
Abbott and other prominent citizens
of New York, have addressed a jetter
to Secretary Robt, calling attention
to conditions in the Congo Free State,
Frederick J. Schaffhauer, consider
ed the most important witness In the
suit of the city of Philadelphia to re-
cover $5,000,000 from Jas. P. Me-
Nichol on the filtration contract, is
Foreign,
The Princess Victoria Alexandra
of Schleswig-Holstein has been be-
trothed to Prince Augustus William,
fourth som of the Emperor of Ger
many.
Governor Magoon declares that
the dispatch of additional troops to
Santa Clara province was merely
a precautionary measure.
The Government small
arms factory is working me
making a new model rifie with which
to rearm the infantry,
The Indian National
of
WG PEER MN
7 BE DETHRONED
Dire Threats Made Against The
WARNINGS SENT TO HIS PREMIER.
Secret Meetings of the Antidynastic
Leaders Indicating a Conspiracy—
Casting About for a European Prince
to Succeed King Peter in Case He
is Overthrown.
Belgrade, Servia (By Cable.) —
The National Assembly finally has
accepted the Loan and Armament
Bills, which were sent for signature
to King Peter. The debate on these
measures was attended by disorderly
scenes on the part of members of the
Assembly, arising from the opening
expression of sentiment against the
present Karageorgevitch dynasty,
which gave rise to reports in German
and Austrian quarters of a move-
ment to dethrone King Peter.
Following the street disorders of
the last few days, the occurrences
in the chamber have added to the
seriousness of the present situation.
The King Is at present confronted
with many difficult problems, not
the least of which is the renewed
activity of the supporters of the late
King Alexander and Queen Draga,
who were murdered the night of
June 10-11, 19503, and the popular
{li-feeling aroused by the recent es-
capades of George, the Crown
Prince.
One of the deputies opposed the
of the reigning family would per-
gonally pocket a large proportion of
it, and the final debates brought out
antiiynastic demonstrations, in which
a number of riotous students sus-
tained serious Injuries. Premier
Pasics has received a number of
threatening letters, intimating that
the present dynasty will meet a fate
similar to that of its predecessor.
The late King Alexander was a mem-
ber of the Ohrenovits family. It in
asserted that secret meetings of the
antidynastic leaders have been held
here for the the purpose of selecting
a European prince as a successor to
| King Peter in the event of a success-
ful antidynastic movement.
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Crown Prince Makes Trouble,
King Peter is regarded as an ami-
able man, but not a particularly clev-
er one—by no means clever enough
for the extremely difizult position he
{has to fil}. Many things are against
him. To begin with, he has no private
means: they were all used up in his
40 years’ exile. According to com-
mon report, the last remnants of his
| fortune went in forwarding the con-
spiracy which resulted in the assas-
gination of Alexander and Draga.
King Alexander had not much money
it is t;ue—only some $60,000 a year
and King Peter would be giad if he
had as much His income as S0V-
erelgn is only $240,000 a year, which
fs not a very great sum for the
maintenance of a royal household.
The people generally were dis
| posed at first to give the King a cor-
‘dial welcome, but when it was seen
how completely he was under the in-
fluence of the conspirators, and the
news of his implication in the bloody
tragedy gradually spread throughout
the land, popular opinion began to
{turn against him. His want of tact
and cleverness hae made his position
i still worse.
His Worst Misfortune.
But the sorest trial and worst mis-
fortune is the Crown Prince, whose
future mccession to the throne is
viewed with positive alarm and ap-
prehension on all sides. Prince
George has many failings, but the
worst is his ungovernable temper,
This has already led him into Innum-
erable troubles — some slight and
some more serious. For several
years Major Lavasseur was the
Prince's governor and the young ty-
rant made it hot for him. Shooting
was Prince George's favorite pastime,
The walls and ceilings of his apart-
ments were covered with bullet
marks, which were particularly num-
erons in the door leading to the royal
quarters. The reason for this was
that the Prince, in order to keep his
governor from coming into the room
took the door for a target,
MONKEY STARTS A PANIC.
Lights Matches, Catches Fire And
Scares Andience,
New York (Special) Sweet Wil-
liam, a clown monkey of an educated
Simian troupe at Proctor's 58th
Street Theater, was accidentally un-
tettered during the matinee, and get-
ting hold of a stage carpenter's coat
which contained in a pocket a box of
matches, lighted three or four and
with one set fire to the carpenter's
handkerchief. Presently he was on
fire himself.
When he dashed out on the stage
hi brick-red cat-fur surtout a-crackle
the women and children who filled
the house started to rush for the ex
it in a panic.
Two men in the audience sprang
to the stage and besought the terri-
sit quiet, the orchestra
fireman dashed
1 THE NATIONS GIPTAL
President Roosevelt left Washing.
ton for his holiday vacation at Pine
Knot, the Virginia cottage owned by
the Roosevelts, near Charlottesville,
With him were Mrs. Roosevelt and
their five , children, also Asgistant
Secretary M. C. Latta, Burgeon
General of the Navy Rixey, Becret
Service Agent James Sloan and Miss
Landon, of Oyster Bay, a friend of
Miss Ethel Roosevelt,
Secretary Shaw has issued a cir-
cular that no surety company shall
be accepted on bond in which the
government 8 interested for an
amount greater than 10 per cent,
of ite paid up capital.
The Department of Agriculture is
determined to have enforced the law
prohibiting railroads from confining
live stock beyond the 36-hour Himit,
Sir Mortimer Durand, the retiring
British ambassador, called upon Sec-
retary Root,
The sword of Paul Jones has been
deposited in the Library of the Navy
Department,
Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell will
be promoted to be a major general.
The Supreme Court decided that
the succession tax of $7,000 assessed
against the board of education of
Kentucky Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is valid.
The Supreme Court decided that it
has jurisdiction to try Sheriff Shipp
and others, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
for contempt of court in connection
with the lynching of Ed Johnson.
The constitutionality of the North
Carolina statute forbidding the oper-
by the Supreme Court of the United
States,
Justice Moody, formerly attorney
general, has been assigned to the
Third Circuit, embracing Pennsylva-
nia, New Jersey and Delaware.
The inheritance tax of Louisiana
was declared by the Supreme Court
of the United States to be constitu-
tional.
Anton Winter, who made the new
counterfeit two dollar certificate, was
arrested in Rochester, N, Y.
The Enterprise Transportation
Company of Jamestown, R. I, filed
complaint with the Interstate Com-~
merce Commission against the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company and the
New England Navigation Company
as to existing transportation rates.
In his annual report Rear Admiral
Rae, chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering of the Navy Department,
says that the steam turbine presents
one of the greatest problems of the
day.
Captain Marix, of the Navy, re
ported experiments for coaling ves-
sels at sea 10 he unsuccessful.
Edwin T. Sanford of Knoxville,
Tenn. will succeed J. C. McReynolds
as an assistant attorney general.
President Roosevelt will spend a
Pine Knot, Va.
RAISULI TO BE DISPOSED.
Bandit Chief No Longer To Govern
Tangier District.
London. (By Cable). The Tan-
gler correspondent of the Times says
that 8id Mohammed Gabbas, minis
ter of war, with practically his
whole army, will go to a spol three
miles east of Tangier, on the border
of the Anghera territory, and there
read to the neighboring chiefs a iet-
ter from the Sultan deposing Ralsuli
from the governorship of the Tan-
gler district, and calling upon the
tribesmen to submit to the maghaen.
or Morceean foreign office, This they
are bellesed to be ready to do. Bx
cellent order is being maintained in
the Moroccan camp. Mohammed
Gabbas is unsparing in his efforts
to restrain his forces {rom any acts
offensive to Europeans or natives.
Toulon (By Cable) --The trans-
port Lanive has sailed hence for Al-
giers, Orand and Merselkebir, where
she will take on board 1,000 colonial
troops and 200 horses. She will
join Admiral Touchard’s squardron
at Tangier, where her troops will be
landed to take part with the Spanish
soldiers in the joint policing of Mo-
Faces, under the Algeciras conven-
tion.
CASTRO REPORAKD WORSE.
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If He Dies, Gomez's Succession Will
Be Opposed By Large Element.
Port of Spain, Trinidad (By Ca
ble) — Latest Caracas advices indi
cate that President Castro is much
worse, and it is even claimed that
he cannot live more than a week
longer. Should die, First Vice
President, Gomez will Immediately
assume the Presidency, and will be
supported by a large section of the
army. A very large element of the
country, including the Andinos, or
mountaineer supporters of Castro,
however, will be opposed to Gomes.
Gen. Alcantara, president of the
State of Aragus, Las accumulated a
large army and considerable war
material, and is determined not to
recognize Gomez, but to raise a revo-
lution for the purpose of obtaining
the Presidency. i
“In the meanwhile, the rebel farce
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HURRYING TROOPS TO THE SCENE
Troops Withdrawn, When Rioting
Breaks Out Afresh at Seoobas and Five
Negroes Are Slain in Fight Between
Whites and Rlacks-— Wagons Meeting
in Narrow Road Cause of Trouble.
Meridian, Miss. (Special), ~— Nine
dead and three wonnded is the record
of the race riot in Kemper County
gince the trouble started Bunday
morning. Eight of the dead are ne-
groes, while but one white man was
killed,
When the troops arrived at Wa-
halak Monday night they found the
little town in & fever of excitement
over the clash between the races ear-
ller In the day. Colonel McCants,
the commander of the Becond Regi-
ment, was informed that the negroes
had fortified themselves two miles
from Wahalak and a party of sol
diers went out to dislodge them, but
when the troops arrived on the scene
The increase of wages In what is
known as the Pittsburg district is
estimated at over $5,000,000 during
1807. Almost every class of labor
1s affected, especially iron and steel
workers and rallroad men. Some
sf these have already received ad-
vances, while others expect thew
about the first of the year. "The
year 1907 will be the most prosper
ous in the*kistory of the steel busi
ness and in fact all lines of busi
ness,” sald Willis L. King, vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the
Jones & Laughlin Company. The
Jones & Laughlin Company is the
jargest independent steel corporation
in the United States and the opinios
of Mr. King is significant. “Creat
as has been the business prosperity
of the steel industry this year, i
will be even greater next,” he contin.
ued. “This is due to the general
pountry. The greatest prosperily nas
got vet been reached’ Higher
wages, more work and an increase
of prosperity are predicted with the
utmost confidence by the officials of
the blacks had disappeared. Two
negroes were killed near Wahalak
by whites early Monday night, but
no further trouble occurred there
during the night. All of the negroes
in that section had either fled or se-
creted themselves in thelr homes,
and believing the trouble over Colo-
nel McCants returned to Meridian
with the soldiers this afternoon.
Tuesday rioting broke out at
Scooba, a town in the same county,
five miles south of Wahalak, as a re-
sult of which five negroes were killed,
| unable to control the situation, and
appeal for troops. The Governor im-
mediately notified the militia at Meri
ceed to Scooba by special train,
country are up in arms, and a deadly
negroes are said to be heavily armed i
with rifles and shotguns, and it is |
believed that much blood will be |
shed before the troops arrive. Two |
of the alleged slayers of the negroes
at Scooba have been placed under |
arrest, and Governor Vardaman nas |
ordered a company of state troops |
from this city to prevent their es |
cape,
the killing of two conductors on Mo
bile and Ohio Rallway trains by ne
groes—one Sunday and
Tuesday.
Another White Man Killed.
Conductor Robert Harrison, of this
city, was shot and killed by an un- |
known negro at Crawford, a station |
above Wahalak, where the race riots
occurred Monday. The assassin was
immediately killed by R. O. Mims, |
formerly yardmaster of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, When the
freight train on which were Harrison |
| and Mims reached Crawford, a hot |
box was discovered, and Harrison and
Mims got off the train to investigate. |
As they stepped to the ground, the
negro stepped out from concealment |
and fired point blank at Mims, but |
the shot struck Harrison. Mims is |
sald to resemble the young fireman
who was with Conductor Cooper Bun-
day morning when the conductor was
| badly slashed in trying to eject an |
intoxicated negro who raised a dis- |
turbance, following which Cooper |
pulled his gun and killed a negro |
companion of the drunken negro and |
mortally wounded the iatter. This |
case of mistaken identity is believed i
to be the cause of Tuesday's fracas. |
According to ddvices received, the |
moment the negro shot Harrison,
Mims drew his revolver and killed
the assassin, who has not been posi-
pei identified up to the presant
time.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday night, the
Meridian troops ordered out by Gov-
ernor Vardaman to prevent a repeti-
motive on orders of the Governor,
and twenty-five were rushed to
Seccha, five miles this side of Wa-
alak.
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FIGHT WITH MAINE GUARDS.
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Three Dead And Four Wounded In
Battle At Owensboro.
Owensboro, Ky. (Special) —Three
men were killed and four probably
fatally wounded in a fight between
guards employed by the West Ken-
tucky Coal Company, at Sturgis,
Union County, and the striking min-
ers at the place,
The fight occurred in a downtown
street about one mile from the mine,
but just what precipitated the fight
i pot known. It broke out suddenly
and continued until 25 shots were
exchanged.
The members of the Miners’ Union
have been on strike for the past year
corporations in the Pittsburg district.
Many corporations have already an-
nounced increases in wages, some of
instituted during the
effect on the first of January, Other
corporations are to follow although
they have not yet made official an-
Falling from the steps of & home
he had meen visiting, Harr
Shaner broke his neck and died
Shaner was re
town. He weighed about 250
Some years ago he was
the Pottstown football
center on
He was 26 years of age.
George W. Ammerman, aged
years, a laborer, was killed on the
Pensylvania Railroad at Union Furs
gee, by a train, while his family
wag waiting the Christmas dinne:
for him at Pemberton. Half an hous
iater John Jenkins, aged 53, of Union
Furnace, was cut to pieces at Barre,
four miles away, and was identified
by a letter in his pocket
Despondent OY > matrimonial
troubles, Elmer Saul, aged 28 vears,
attempted to commit suicide al
and cannot survive
Saul was married in Asentown some
months age, but the venture was not
& success and he wont to Jersey City
An old love letter from 2 Cham-
he jeft behind
Altoona suddenly
ar
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Bi
Lloyd Shatzer, an alleged boarding
Shatzer got board on
He sivle $8.48 from
gold
ring from William Gearnart, fellow.
boraders, it is charged, and left, for
pocket of which was found =»
letter, written at Chambersburg
After a brief suspension the “'Min-
resumed publica.
tion at Pottsville under the old man
agement. The “Journal,” whose his
tory dates back to 1525, caused the
greatest astonishment by {ts suspen
sion a few dave ago. The difficulties
is the result of
the peculiar condition of the times,
for though it was rushed with pa
tronage. the high prices of material
made the publication unprofitable.
Schuylkill County teachers held a
meeting at which several commitices
were appointed to boom the new
teachers’ retirement bill. Represen-
that district who
introduced a bill, which is now a law,
i fixing the minimum salary of teach-
lers at $35 a month, apprised the
{ teachers of his readiness to take up
: their cause. It ix probable that Mr.
Snyder will be entrusted with ibe
{task of preparing the teachers’ re-
| tirement bill and of taking charge of
| the fight in the House. .
OVE
BULLDOG KILLS AGED WOMAN,
She Falls To Floor In Faint And
The Animal Attacks Her,
Crawfordsville, Ind. (Special) —-
Mrs. Nancy Wallace, aged ninety,
met death in a shocking manner here,
Her granddaughter, Mrs, Leona Ben-
son, had gone down town to do some
Christmas shopping, leaving the aged
jady st home alone. A short time
after her departure, Mrs. Wallace
fainted and fell to the floor.
A bull dog which was in the room
began to bark and pull at her cloth-
ing and hair and bit her several
times, badly imcersting her arin and
pulling out great bunches of hair. The
barking continued nantil neighbors
were attracted, sand upon investiga-
Miner Ricks To Lecture,
Bakersfield, Cal. (Special) —-T. B.