TRAIN WAS. RUN AT HIGH SPEED Investigating The New York Central Wreck. TWENTY NOW ON THE DEATH ROLL. The Motorman, Who Declares He Was Running 48 Miles an Hour, Said to Have Admitted to the Coroner That It Was 70 Miles— Streams Pour Into the Morgue to Identify the Mangled Ree mains of the Victims—Theory of the Coroner District Ate torney—01d Attached to the Speedy Motors, and Coaches New York (Special). Twenty dead, two fatally hurt and 145 others more or less seriously injured is the result of the an electric pxpress train on the New York Cen- tval Railroad at Two Hundred and Fifth Street and Webster Avenue Of the large number of injured, OHO are, according tc hospital and police renorts, seriously hurt, and the death list may be increased. Most of the others are from lacerations shock recover. : E. R. Rogers, the motorman of the derailed train, who was arrested by order of the coroner and taken be- wreck suffering or and will fore him for examination, was subse- quently paroled on his own recogni zance to appear for the coroner's in quest. Rogers declared that the was running no faster trains were commonly run. | The cause of the wreck still a | matter of speculation. All night In-| spector Flood, of the police depart- | ment: Coroner Schwannecke and As | sistant District Attorney Smythe, gother with other member District Attorney’ the and sou the cause of the d train. The it of gation may ingur is h All our York where several had which which had placed and ly under tr ain than steam is force, 100K +h t scene ai wrallm resu their inv 1 become known wien id of Central train the cars coroner zs st by the f the tra through the of been Seventy With the inters tu ties mi sign the « necks from wreol to thre stated ule ti and train said did until plac TT head five ( the CAT, nate gmoker ordin NOT SELL TO WoL LD APS. Harriman Said To Have Refused Of. fer Fo {ecamer Lines, Fi Examiner San man, of has refus of the T nese compan tween this sell out to the in part o The Pacific ail mi BB said, is now con ring a pr tion from which the Pz- cific Mail is abandon the Panama ! route and run its steamers in connec- tion with the Tehanntepec Isthmian Line, or else its steamer se divid a vice between the ayen yposi- Mexico by to two Isthmian road Burned In Their Home. South N. J William Lancey Lanecey {Bpecial and Mrs raed ii Orange, 187 were badly bn which totally destr dence, on Foreat fonable section of Short Hills are now i Mefford Street, childr fire was by some blaze in of the had a Fad wi OF Drive, in the fash- They spital of Dr South Prospet Their two | nurse. The | ‘clock in the privat Runyon, on Orang e he South were gaved discovered abo % of the ae wher collection who saw a at the De Lancey piants the ¢ rear hou LL Ad of costly 820,000 For Cleveland (8: of a& spoonful of braing and other injuries, which he claims he sus tained when a long-handied adze fell from an upper story of the Central High 8chool annex, May 6, 1904, George ©. Bevang wants $20,000 | damages. Bdvans says the brains he lost were the best he had, and that | he prized them highly. The adze was | accidentally dropped, he claims, by | an employ of George A. Cook, of Stevens & Co., and that Skeel Bros. | were negligent in not keeping a tems | porary flooring down above where he was working. Bit Of Brains, wind) For the lose Mrs. Bradley Indicted. Washington (Special). Mrs. An- nie M. Bradley was indicted for mur- der in the first degree for the shoot. ing of former Senator Arthur M. Brown, of Utah, at the Raleigh Hotel, in this city, on the Sth of last De- cember, causing his death on De- cember 13. Mrs. Bradley probably will be arraigned under the indict. ment sometime this week. Her trial will not take place for, per- haps, two months. She is at pres- ant ronfined in the district fall THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Domestic. The University of Pennsylvania to confer the degree of doetor laws on Dr. Howard A. Kelly. President Eliot, of Harvard, favor: geparate schools for the white and black races, is of A statement has been issued from the office of District Attorney Jerome that the State is willing to consider the appointment of a lunacy mission for Harry K. Thaw. All differences between the Wost- ern Union Company and its opera tors in Chicago have been adjusted and the men who were discharged have been reinstated. Alexis Alladin, party in York He says are an the (SLERES) leader of the Russia, arrived at 30,000,000 Russian: verge of starvation A crank mistook Chief of Poli O'Brien, of Chicago, for Roosevelt and attempted him Cardenas & Coe, firm of importers and exporter have made an assignment Justice Greenbaum, of New issued an order directing the can lce Company pen ant to shoot an old New Ameri to produce, for the discovery and inspection of the peo- ple of the State of New York, all contracts made by the company with a long list of firms and individual The political campaign in the Phil- ippines is causing excitement throughout the island The gov ernment party has reorganized the National Progressives Pulafanes burned yh il two towns ros, Phi the ¢ pines, of teachers are mis Mei. Williams, Wisconsin University pitcher, w Was Suppose dead, has found Indiana Harrow Hall, one of the building: ial Universal Wit six American Charles ous in of the Lincoln Memori Madison Jones, age 2 eal a from by caved red New sion York of a 11 1. € Moor, abl James F Foret RT eztabl extensive but limited late will be introduced Parliament #7 becoming of the Turk { hie { seized rman « fficials are tient t he de a punishing 1 I 0 I a aovel offic in in the the lice, who ship ouse of Commons new writ for the election of a member in place of Mr. William- gon, Conservative and tariff reformer, unseated Fifty-six women esuffragists were arrested for disorderly conduct House of Commons, refused to pay the fines imposed and were jail Investigation is being made the sanity of Professor Hau, of Was ington, held at Karlsruhe, Germany charged with the murder er-in-law Premier German The English 1} ’ in the gent to Bon the El Aziz Tunis af Mohammed age of 95 Anarchists being Berlin on the charge of ebel. it was formally mier Clemenceau resign. President Castro was operated up- arrested in provoking are denied that Pre- of France Premier Bond, of Newfoundland, arraigned the home government, which, he said, abandoned the colony in arranging the modus vivendi with the United States The German Imperial Supreme Court has sentenced an Italian, who claims to be a prince, to pison for attempting to get drawings of a fortress. The British chief secretary for Ire. land announced in the House of Com- mong that the cabinet is committed to home rule for Ireland. The police arrested three anarch- jets in Berlin and 15,000 copies of a revolutionary pamphlet Efforts will be made in Parliament to obtain a governmental statement on the Swettenham episode. Charles Tucker, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and a customs agent named Forwood have been sentenced each to two years’ imprisonment for conspiring to com- mit extensive customs frauds. SEVEN BLOWN UP ON A STEAMER Auxiliary Boiler On Fruitter Explodes. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. Disaster Occurs Without Warning, and in a Moment the Compan‘onway Is Choked Up With Fragments of the “even Victims — The Steamer Was Shatter d and Disabled. The steamer West her New York Ham Valdi Indies, forward flat gtory of a boller which caused the ven members ry (Special) rican Line fruit lade into 1 from the port with lecks shattered, her funnel up- and the 1 18} rd, Wa ting engine al ote Hatteras {t wa fliary boiler into the aux steam g the from ain pipe con requirement and the All through the e¢ West Indies boiler had been 100 1 speed necessary to to gave CATREO 1} to gauge 15 pounds ing increased by uddenly there came a d, and anfon-wi feam Thi fore #150 DROWNED OR FROZEN. Steamer Lar hront Sinks After Collision. Joy Line midst, only by withstand in an open The boat that has tale of disas- been equaled and it is the final count that lost Ler Engla ljeved that made it will be than 150 lives waters when found wore Grim Tokens of Suffering. Following in the wake the solitary lifeboat came bodies, cast upon the by angry wavea Then came lifeboats and rafts, Each of them their burden of grim death, well as a load of suffering and each brought a tale of suffeing and of despalr nd ot closely beach bore as Collision, The White Republic, Cap Another Naples (By Star Line steamship tain McAuley 2 and Genoa February Cable) from Boston Februar: le entering the harbor here col- America. from 8t. Thomas January 17. Nobody was injured, but a great panic ensued Both steamers were Killed At Grade Crossing. Adrian, Mich. (Special) Mrs. Mary aged 69, was instantly Warren Stamp, aged 28, was and Miss Ida Hinkley, aged 24, was seriously hurt when the buggy in which they were rid- ing was struck by an eastbound Wa- bash passenger train. fatally injured, Italy Going Backward, Rome (By Cable).—Recent statis- tics show that Italy's population for the last five years has been gradual- lv decreasing. In several of the pro- vinces which furnish the largest con- tingents of emigrants the deaths al- ready outnumber the births, while in others the population is stationary. The lack of laborers is felt every- where throughout the country. Em- gration is considered to be the main cause of the depopulation, SCHOOLS OPEN COOLIES BARRED Basis of Settlement of the Jap Controversy. THE IMMIGRATION BILL TO PASS The Senate Decides to Act Upon It at Once, Thus Obviating Necessity of the President Calling an Extra Session of Congress - Filibustering Tactics to Be Abandonded. gettle Paci Washington of the (Special) A the ovel ment in Coast lon of controversy fie States arising the ox- clu Japanese pupils from pub schools has reached. Mavor been Schmitz and the school President becomes a ‘rancisco the bill the oriental and will admit the white schools, arrived the ance ended bolish 1 Fran 2) npanese pupils Fhese agreements 10 law oa 0 10 ware hetween friends In the Sena mmigration Bill, hetween Secretary Root itz and rancisc conference and his rding the two conferences and and Ma from San F After a ident statenyent: come 0 a upon the Cong will pa t the Immigration Bill February 13 The filibu migration Bill rought the be uarats Roosevelt § ide igitor vor Schm 0 other Pres this ‘ Afar Y . the Mayor S out “We have satisfactory asst the men from y 11 HAUS states import LITTLE WAR IS AVERTED Nicaragua And Honduras At 1s Agree To pst oth i accepted { nm ma nn the nots United States, Mexico, Guatema nd Costa Rica and had i differ what the was immi joint their nees knows just been between but ago ane Yoti nhble has two "1 republics, War nent a fow days BH. Chicago Kuppenheimer Suicide, B. Kuppen- the firm was found { Special) heimer, manager of a bullet wound in his revolver lay beside him. He died before a physician arrived Avenue with of suicide while despondent because ill health. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. back from a trip to the South and he is =aid to be a bear long pull The Lackawanna Steel gold $£5.000,000 of Gates is per cent, Iron and steel exports last amounted to $172,000,000, compared with $142,000,000 in 1905 $1258.000,000 in 1904, There were rumors that a Union Pacific holding company is to be formed to take over all the invest- ment securities of that railroad. The extreme weakness of Missouri Pacific caused a revival of the gos- sip about a reduction in that com- pany's dividend to 4 per cent, Gould stocks are not popular with the street, As was the case six months ago, 3 per cent. of the Union Pacific dividend was declared out of surplus earnings of the railroad and 2 per cent. was declared out of income from investments, When Gould Vvexan his fight against the Pennsylirania and later against the Union Pacific he raised up antagonisms of such a powerful nature that his various stocks have been unpopular ever since. It may be fine to be very independent, but it Is hard these days to get along without the moral support at least of great financiers. GIRL ALLEGED EMBEZZLER Treasurer of a Church Society Locked Up On That Charge. Bloomington, Ill. (Special) Miss Helen Dixon is an occupant of a cell in the city jall, awaiting trial on @ of eibezzlement, She a leading church worker, looked up to and respected by all, and Intrust- ed with large sums of money ralsed for religious purposes, Wandering somewhere in the coun- try in her brother, who by his con- tinual pleas for money first drew from her her savings and later the church funds intrusted to her care. ‘He will pay them back if they will give me time,” is the girl's la ment Her faith in him is unshaken, though others have ceased be charge wis 10 lieve money she Migs Dixon is ing $1,200 belonging the which that she ever again will gee advanced to him accused of embezzl- the Glean Christ the to Second ian she h The had laborious Church, of for two ited her ing four years of part of the When a new $2, Gleaner's Soclet half the cost. society has rtainment in ths and the nol Y €@ ted an aAgpregate ge urer years money heen raised efforts of the iru to Care members the ¢h 200 urch pipe v agreed to raise that Since time been giving periodi There society, i ca eéente are 100 all ye UNE women, arned has ble effort Hial ari represses i these vari rep The 18 Means was ti Recently the Gleaner’s i Dix hes Het LOOKING FOIL ROOSEVELT. Drew Revolver Oa Captain PDetoctives, iver and the ¢ were dam pped to the pler and came close river stone the Several per to into I injured Passex Two-Uent Rate, Raleigh, N. C., vote of S23 to 28 of the 2-cent the (8pecial) By a the lower branch General Assembly passenger tate applicable Southern Raflwav and tho Coast Line, exempting The Senate is considering a 2% -cont rate, othe: First Trolley Sleeper. { Bpecial) The fir illinois ni Springfield, and another i060 P. M. from Decatu: The cars are equipped with 10 sections and the usaal smok- ing and dressing rooms St Louis ever run in for Decatur, trolley left East by way departed at sleeper St. Louis of Thawed Dynamite In Stove, Annville, Pa. (Special) An explo- gion of dynamite, put in the kitchen oven to thaw for the use of her hus- band, a quarryman, killed Mrs. John Zellers and seriously Injured her two children, Lydia and Mary. The house was demolished. Boy Averted Bad Wreck. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). - Madison Jones, 12 years old, discov ering that a portion of a 600-foot trestle had been burned near Sparks Gap, on the Southern Railway, 20 miles from Birmingham, left his wagon in the road, and taking off hie red sweater, flagged an approaching passenger train from Birmingham. The train came to a halt, and the passengers upon discovering the situation made up a purse for the boy. A SHORTAGE OF “OVER HALF MILLION Wrsiiricsmpsre Savings Bank Treasurer's Defalca- tion Serious. THE BAPTIST CONVENTION FUNDS. A Statement Is Iscued Dec aring That the Institution Will Have More Than Enough to Pay All Depositors in Full Treasurer Walker | id Not Touch Cash, but Abstrac ed Bonds, More vf New 4 than half a million dollars iritain, {Bpecial) worth securities were taken from th lank treast of the Bavings by the ging Walker, according to a sts sued by the board institution, following the iia ERE of directors bank by Stat in the the anove poOBitors, $565,000 recovered As bank commission ta yeorge statement sent a | to Governor Kendall be removed from offic wn the ground of asking fhe 5 Li neglect of ompetend He pointed when . ATs LE Bank Suspends Paymn AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly lold. anada anda trad mati the demands public lands The House RETO on the Di propriation i Straus irs Ap 3 ©] lo n naugurated a d« holdis \ nference wit! the chiefs of t ne of his ds pariment with reference {x Secretar ts » 148 P There people was an at the on trict of Colum The Departmen ordered the prosecution of a of railroad com; elating to the of cattl The Senate passcd a bill to provid an investigation of the SOUrces the United States Geological Sarvoes The Postoffice Appro; provides increased for all employees in the postal service The American National Red Cross cabled an additional $5.000 to Shang- hai for the famine sufferers Senator Knox made an argument against the expulsion of Reed Smoot from the Senate. The conference on the Immigration Bill reached an agreement which pro poses to refuse admission to this country to Japanges coming from thelr own country and not provided with passports, and authorizes the exclusion of Japanese coolles coming from American insular possessions, Charles HH. Madison, of Pittsburg, formerly corporal of Company Twenty-fifth Infantry, (old the Sen. ate Military Committees his version of the Brownsville affair. fice has numb violating O03 J Rt anies for jew shipment yy L010 Tater re Oi fy thy fation B salaries
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