TRAGEDIES OF THE ATLANTI Winter's Record of Casualties Shows 350 Head. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANC:. Many Newfoundland Fisherman Among Those Who Perished—Burning of Steamer Cuthbert and Wreck of British Steamer Tolesby--Remarkable Life-saving Feats, Boston, Mass. (Special).—A re- view of the marine casualties of the coast of New England and British North America during the fall winter seasons just ended, shows that about 350 lives were lost. Of this number 251 persons perished In the wrecks vessels belonging to and of 10 the French fishing fleet of St. Pierre, Miquelon, last fall. These vessels foundered in heavy gales which swept the Grand Banks. About 25 Newfoundland fishermen were also lost in these storms. The most thrilling disaster was that which befell the British steam- er St. Cuthbert, off the Nova Scotia Coast February 2. The steamer, while on a voyage from Antwerp to New York, caught fire, and in their endeavors to escape incineration 14 | men perished—13 by drowning and | 1 by falling into the burning hold | The particulars of the gallant rescue | of the survivors by the men of the | White Star steamer Cymric are well | known. Another notable of the winder was the wreck of the British | stegmer Tolesby, Galveston Tex., for | Havge. The Tolesby struck the rocks | at Freshwater Point, near Cape Race, | in a heavy snowstorm on the night | of January 13. The steamer broke in two and the crew was in danger of being swept overboard. They finally reached the beach, but en- countered a steep cliff 200 feet in| heignt and extending for miles. Af-| ter suffering intensely from cold and flying spray for 18 hours, all hands | were rescued. One of the greatest feats in marine annals was the saving of 604 persons | who were on the Canadian Pacific | steamer Mount Temple when she] struck on La Havre Iron-bound Ledges, off Bridgewater, N. S., on the | night of December 2, while on her | way to St. John from Antwerp. The | steamer went on the rocks during a | heavy snowstorm, and at the time it was thought she would g0 to pieces. The women and children were landed on Iron-bound Island by means of breeches lines and baskets, and the men were taken off in boats {rom fishing schooners and tugs. On Decem 14 the Themson liner Kildona, bound from Dundee | for Portland, struck Brazil Rock, off | Cape Sable, N. 8., and was totally | wrecked. The crew was rescued by the steamer Lunisburg The latest misfortune to befall a steamer was that which overtook the Red Cross steamer Sylvia, New York | for Halifax, and St. John, N. F. She was wrecked March 14 on Sow and Pigs Shoal. The passengers and | crew were landed at New Bedford During the fall the loss of two famous New England vessels were recorded. Neither was lost in home waters On 13 the seven- masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson went to on the Scilly Islands. Nearly all of tne crew were drowned The other great tragedy of the sea, and one that may remain a mystery, was disappearance of the Bath (Me) ip Arthur Sewall, one of the best known vessels in the American She left Philadel phia on April 3, 1907, for Seattle, “3 Wash., and has never been reported gince she left Breakwater. | The Sewall carried a cargo of coal and probably foundered with all board In addition to 80 schooners, 10 vesscls ‘of other rig New England and ( irs Bik ber y > December pieces always the v I * ah ia fleet Delaware iv iY on named eral in the vessels irges and sev were wrecked by 5 ' anadian water Engl ; ELEPHANTS AT LARGE. Escape From Circus And Are Shot At By Farmers, Val v aif Police from nen White Fla., that two of their phants had cscaped and were headed for Valdosta, where the circus win- tered. Later reports which reached here gay that the elephants were sur- rounded nine miles from Geneca, Fla, by a crowd of farmers with guns and | that the big animals were fired upon, the shots infuriating them and caus- ing them to break away. Telegrams from White Springs say that the peo- ple in the county through that sec tion are organizing for a big elephant hunt, losta, Ga. (Special) ied Pat girTcus Ct npler received a telegram at Springs, stating eles Catling Gun For Night Riders, Maysville, Ky. {(Special).—-Amer- fcan Tobacco Company representa- tives have placed a Gatling gun on | the roof of their warehouse here to | prevent Night Rider® from burning | the building. Men will be constantly | on guard, and, it is asserted, will use | the gun if the Night Riders appear. | Admiral Sperry To Command, Washington, D. C. (Special), «= Rear Admiral Charles 8. Sperry will | bring the battleship fleet from San | Francisco to the Atlantic coast by | way of the Suez canal. This detail was announced by Secretary Metcalf, Want Japanese Tn Unions. Seattle (Special).-~M. Saito, for mer member of the Japanese Cabinet as Minister of Commerce, has arrived from Tokio to start a campaign among union labor leaders for admis. sion of Japanese workmen to mem- bership in organized labor bodies. Fire Covers 22 Acros. Lyons, France (By Cable). A fire hore in a big biscuit factory spread over a block of buildings covering 22 acres. More than $400,000 damage | { i SOME 00D TALES 15 TOLD BY WIRE ————— Woman of 29 Adopts Man of 46-- Killed After Thirteen Dinner. Dances Until His Leg Breaks. New York (S8Special).—In an en- durance test two-step at the Hibern- ian ball, in the Albemarle Hotel, Peter Harrigan, thirty-one, of East Fifteenth Street and Avenue X, Sheepshead Bay, danced with his partner, Katherine Kelly, until his right leg snapped at the ankle. He had been dancing thirty-five minutes with all couples vanished except one, when in making a short turn his leg broke. He was still so intent on winning the prize that he demanded of the doctors of the Reception Hospital that they give him a crutch so he could finish. Woman Of 20 Adopts Man Of 40. (Special).—Miss Wilhelmina Crawford, twenty-nine years old, adopted in the Superior Court as. her son James Butler, who is forty-six. Miss Crawford, who is well to do, sa¥s Butler's parents died when he was a boy. He was brought up in her father's family, and she got to entertain such a motherly feeling for him that she determined to have him as a son Lowell, Mass Pies In The Witness Chair. Mount Vernon he County Court of was brought to a { Special). Jefferson County dramatic adjourn ment when George MeBride died | seated in the witness chair McBride was the chief witness for the defense in a case on trial He had told of his long acquaintance with the parties to the suit. The at turned to refer to some memo- and then asked the vital gques- | the suit There was no an- The trial judge was surprised | at the man's sceming stubbornness and left the bench in order to re-| peat the question himself to the wit-| ness. One glance showed the judge that | McBride was dead. | i randa, in Kilied After Thirteen Dinner. Jackson, Mich. (8pecial).—Friends | of Charles Hitchcock, a well known | hotel man, are commenting on the] superstition connected with the num- ber 13. While he was visiting here last week a banquet was given in hi honor. At that the | remarked | the 13th. there was | the table date was Then it was found thirteen at the table. Thursday, when Mr some one Friday, that Hitchcock's | the incidents the banquet recalled. At Sturgis, Mich., on his head while getting off a moving train, of ware ha fell ae [eds Auto Haurls Girl Into Man's Lap. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special) she stepped across Atlantic Miss Agnes Grant saw bearing swiftly down As Avenue, an automobile She hesitated, mind, and next | swish skirts | that startled there was of feminine instant and a a shriek Dr. L.. H. Bewly, who was driving the size of Miss Grant was being kill ed, but with the swish of skirts there landed in his lap an indignant, but unhurt, young woman The doctor took her to her hotel in his machine OF BIG SKELETON. CAST Andrew Carncgie's Gift To The Eme- peror Of Germany. al} New al On her next trip across the Atlantic the steamship Main. of the North German Lloyd, will carry a gigantic plaster cast of a a prehistoric reptile that ¢ York (Speci skeleton of lived an lion years ago. ‘he skeleton is now in the Carnegie Museum. at Pitts burg. but when the Emperor of Ger- many sometime ago a d gire to see the huge form of the relic of the ages Andrew Carnegie at once get about meeting the German ruler's wish This plaster cast of the reptile dip-| lodocus weighs in all 9.400 pounds, and is packed away in 34 cases, all of which are being loaded this after- noon in the hold of the big steams at its piers in Hoboken The will occupy great deal of space, a might be imagined when one ig told that the huge lizard-—the diplodocus used to be 700 feet long and more an 16 fect in heignt : “i i expressed hip | cast a f th MINISTER SENTENCED. Accused Of Sending Obscene Pictures Through The Mails, Pa. (8pecial).—Judge | Archbald, in the United States Court, here, sentenced the Rev, H. E. Zim- | of Omaha, Neb., formerly | Lutheran minister in Dickinson, | this State, to six months’ imprison- | Seranton, mails. The charges against Zimmer man created a sensation in and around Dickinson, where he held a the theological seminary at Getiys- | burg, Pennsylvania, When he was arraigned Zimmer- man pleaded guilty, and some of the members of his former congregation testified to his good character. The defendant sought to excuse his con- duct on the ground that he needed the pictures in connection with a magazine article which was in the course of preparation. Will Reduce Opium Dens, Shanghal (Special). — The Muni- cipal Council of the Foreign Settle. ments of Shanghai at its annual meet- ing voted to reduce the number of opium dens ‘in Shanghai by one fourth. An amendment for the im- mediate abolition of all the dens was rejected. The decision is an outcome of active support of the project by the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, expressed through their respective Consular of- uad been done. floors. THE JAPS WILL SEE = OUR BIG FLEET Mikado’s Invitation Has Been Ac- cepted By Government, SHIPS MAY ALSO VISIT CHINA, Fleet Will Remain a Week in Japan. ese Waters— The Invitation Says the People of Japan Desire to Express Their Friendship and Admiration for American People. Washington, The visit PD. 0 (Special). battleship fleet Japan. The of the porer of the Island Kingdom to play host to the ‘Big Sixteen” was laid before Secretary Root by Baron Taka- hira, the Japanese ambassador fnvitation, which was couched in most cordial terms, was made the gubject of extended consideration by President Roosevelt and his Cabinet. Secretary Root was directed to accept the invitation, and the ac- ceptance was lald before the Japan- Ambassador. It is regarded in official circles here as more than likely that China will be next to bid for a look the fleet, and that should tuls be case the invitation would be accepted Secretary Meteall and ‘ilisbury, ranging the details the new itin- With the exception of China, believed to deter that all any be for at American is to desire Em- ese at the Of is have been other received, best the to rench the the first of itinerary, which inci Islands, Samoa, Melbourne, Manila, Yckohama-—-should as the stopping in Japan-possibly a Chinese back to the Philippines and then home by way eof the Suez Canal, with only such stops as are necessary for coaling A Week At will ha to tentative plans in foreign ports made have been on an 10 days’ duration, part time was occupied in taking on With a visit Manila first, no coal- 1g operations would be necessary least to any considerable extent, in Yokohama This would enable the entire stay there to be up to the festivites and show features the visit. The acceptance of fs regarded in official circles as of censiderable importance in the way of a demonstration of the cor- diality existing between the can and Japanese governments. The added trip is nearly equal in. dis- tance to a from New York to Europe Japan's Invitation. text of Japan's letter follows JAPANESE EMBASSY, Washington, March 18, sir Under instruction from His Majesty's minister for foreign affairs 1 have the honor to communicate you that the | having learned « cruise of tl ship fleet Philippin fous to t cordis fleet mined will be de- will Atlantic sea- next March seems fleet clined, The to direct, Hawaiian Sidney, that port be selected port, Japan. ships a week, While 80 average af t Japan the ve the stops of hint a SERRA coal to given vovage he f 18508 to mper government ali the contempls ¢ United Siates Sar es Islands, is afforded pr f i 3 i from San Francisco sincerely anx- unity opport ! welcome that and to give an ent! pression to the sentin and admiration invarably enter tained by the of Japan to- wards the people the United States I am further vou that the firmly convinced effect which the can fleet the Japan roduceé upon traditional of good understanding and mu- sympathy which so happily ex- between the two nations and to express u the hope of the im- perial government that the he instructed to call at the ports of Japan in its extended cr in the Pacific Accept, sir, of my highest magni usiastic f friend- ent of eople of ructed to al inform inst eri government of the reassur visit of the Ameri res of will 1 rela ir 11] n to ahi the jong ual fats to ¥¢ fleet 1 y principal tise the renewed consideration K TAKAHIRA ihu Root. Secretary of State assurance Hon. El Workers, Sob * Famine Of Farm Lancaster, Pa farmers h { Special) ly deo require help their farms that the Farmers’ League of Lancaster County has issued an appeal to the unemployed of city and town to go to the country for work An appeal has been sent alse to the Bureaus of Labor and Immigration er immigrants be directed to this county. Aged Man Shot By Police. Williamson, W. Va. (Special). Chief of Police Otis Riley shot and fatally wounded Alex Trent. aged eighty-six, who resisted arrest. Riley gays the aged man drew a knife on him. FINANCIAL One Chicago speculator sold 500,- 000 bushels of corn at 67 cents, So far this year twenty-two cor- porations have either suspended or reduced their dividends. The New York Air Brake Com- pany will offer to sharhclders $3. 000.000 of 6 per cent. convertible bonds. The United States Treasury now has a cash working balance of $49. 000,000 outside of the $215,000,000 held by the banks. Compared with other railroads, the hard coalers, especially Reading and Lehigh Valley, will make very favorable reports for February. Cambria Steel has earned an aver- age ‘8.4 per cent. on its capital stock during the last six years, the divi dend declared being 3 per cent. Rumors still continue that the Rockefellers and not the Guggen- heims now dominate American Smelt- ing. ROOSEVELT AND THE PLUTOCRACY Talks to a French Editor of His “Crusade.” Paris (By Cable).-—The Temps published an article on President Roosevelt from the pen of Andre Tardieu, its foreign editor, who has Just returned to Paris from America, where he was received by Mr. Roose- velt three times. After pleturing the President's vouthful vigor and his love for the struggles against wrongs and abuses, M. Tardieu quotes from the Presi- lent’'s utterances to him, especially in connection with his “crusade.” The President declared his strug. i gle against plutocracy was because was an enemy of socialism and anarchy, ‘I am, after fashion, | a conservative,” M. Tardieu quote: Mr. Roosevelt as saying, “and it is for this I combat the abuses of plutoe- racy I know the people in Wall Street denounce me as a Judas Iscar- fot, but it is because I speak the language of truth to the American people that I think I am a good pa- triot I am not a sentimentalist Let them attack me; | will myself by appealing to the spirit Justice in the country. I will {turn the blows.” Continuing, Mr. Roosevelt thought that what the United lacked most was a comprehension of the fact that she has throughout the entire world “1 wish all Americaps,” the Presi- dent sald, “would feel that American | politics are world that we {are and will be all the | great { he my of re said he interests politic 8 concerned in questions.” Mr. Roosevelt then spoke with en- thusiasm of the | which he said would “ { probably to Australia and i the Suez Canal to Europe. He had t ordered the to make this voy- age, first, because he wished to dem- { onstrate to the American people that the Navy was effective and important {and that they should be interested in and proud of it; and, second, be- cause he desired to show to the other powers the naval force of the United States The President declared that without doubt the United States would eventually have two fleets, but in the the present one never would be divided. “We gay,” M. Tardieu quotes Mr Roosevelt remarking, “speak soft- ly and car the ‘big sti this is a good i in international troubles and is good also in foreigr yattleship Hawali, fleet meantime 5, W0ICY . b it poii- BOY, DISGRACED, A SUICIDE. Police Discovered He Had Sent Black. mail Letters To His Father, Ww Va {Special} .~ because the authorities was the aunth- letter sent to Wheeling Fr had discovered that he of an anonymous father two weeks ago, which writer demanded that a certain placed in a certain spot, Alexander Whittaker, son of A. Q Whittaker. one of the wealth- fest men in Marshal County, own life He left the house at an early hour When he d not return search was made him body was found at the barn, 100 yards from isto] with one emg ind beside him self in the head ightened or his ir i took his home, a His dead rear of the the house A ty chamber } ie had shot As i n for } Pp fs i A King May lose An Arm. Madrid El Mun that it learned good au that wound King arm on Feb: los and the Crown Prince sassinated. has not healed, recently become very much The attending physicians, says da h Special) on Prince Portugal——1y , 3 . 4 1 the Manuel of How eived the when in King Car- were as- and has IATY the perative Salesman A Suicide, Tampa, Fla {8pecial) A. H filler, traveling representative of a ano house in Norfolk, Va... commit- guicide in the Hillsboro with a dag He left a note to his as follows: “I have been fight- off for time. but can’t any Jonger. I know that I but can’t help it Miller 8S. C Bi ger wife ing this some hold back am Crazy, lived at Camden “Last One” Dead Again. Lajara, Colo. (Special) Nelms, aged ninety years, claimed to be the last survivor of the “noble six hundred” at Balaklava, east of here He was wounded in the head at Balaklava and afterward tie of Inkerman. fca in 1852 , To Bottle All The Fleas. Boston (Special). — Orders have | been received by the immigration of- ficials at Long Wharf to capture and bottle up every flea they can catch on immigrants for microscopic examina- [tion later. Each flea is to have a | separate bottle, the vial to be labeled | with the name of the flea’s host, the {host's home and the name of the | captor. i May Be The Train Robbers, gt. Paul. Minn. (Special ).—A spec {al to the Pioneer Press from Boze- iman, Mont.. says that two men, an- swering the description of the Great Northern train robbers; who escaped from jail at Helenan Saturday, wore arrested at Bozeman by Sheriff Rey. nolds, as they alighted from a freight train. One Year For Forgery. Lexington, Ky. (Special). Waiter R. Day, state treasurer under the brief Republican administration of Governor W. 8. Taylor in 1500, was gentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary for forging the name of his uncle, Floyd Day, to a check for $6,000. Day is a brother of Carl Day, who, as a member of the legisia- ture was author of the bill which pecame a law prohibiting the co-edu- cation of the white and black races in Kentucky. KILLS WIFE WHOM HE DID NOT LOVE Man Then Shoots Himself and May Not Recover. CHLOROFORMED WHILE SHE SLEPT, Willoughby at First Pretended Burg. lars Committed the Deed — After. wards Confessed He Led a Double Life for Four Years Domestic Af- fairs Unhappy. Milwaukee, Wig. (Special) Willoughby of the & Bherman Company, coffee and spice killed his their home, on Prgspect Av« Willoughby then fired two shots his breast over the heart and expected to recover He confess he ba murder becaue he ated with another woman, id been supporting for fou After the shooting Willou geed himself downst: the appear , manager mills, shot and i¥ the 5g Lie was in whot | iid a £133 i side door that bu the deed, hi wall of elephoned opened to make it had committed revolver in and then t the thie basement for a do notified 1 i erin LDuUrgial the were informed that a both Mr.-and Mrs but when the officers arri 14 POLICE onc and attemp tained a confession Quarrcled Before Mr. and Mrs tended a soc Methodist both were Willoughby school class When home a quarrel followed retired Whi was asleep formed her and the left ear, causing He shot himself, “1 married wife sald he. “J did not married her stly o1 she being has never a frequently quarreled Retiring. Willoughb) it the Chur ial Episcopal prominent taught workers al . aing a both le her hus then shot then niy mn DOO! ¥ i woman been r 4 happy Mrs jealous of for years WAS On my 3 a woman on the » first time 1 woman 1 r une Willoug ne Then : had rea met eally was living husband after I met h her two 3 began support intimate and have 8 Two years ago she obtained divorce and since that time 1 have been widing for her and 1} children he is now bk living in Chicago “This woman, unhappy life cruel to her and deserted children 1 her We also, Her soon and -w he her then became to Year pre jer S Planned Crime For Months, My affairs did not prove, and a long time ago 1 decid I would end it all How to do it was what bothered and, for n months 1 have been planning a way began to c¢olleet chloroform it in small lots and until had a bottle domestic im- in TTI # me, any y 3 1a intending to but 1 fail reast the heart, have any 1H THINKS ORCHARD T0LD THE TRUTH Judge Asks Commutation of Death Sentence. Caldwell, Idaho (8pecial) 51 that he in his testimon) D tibone, nor exact ating believed that Harry Orchard, the Wii- Pet- trials of A A in Haywood and George for the Frank 4 told truth, a intis conceal Judge Fremont Wood, in district that Slate G1 to lam » murder of ex-Gover- y steunes 4} the bere, court, the Board of mute Orchard’s sentence imprisonment ar Th The in the of sent in in nee unced accordance guilty § week oa ed bs enters aignea both ars the A Drive Ends In Death, Sharon, Pa ¢ M Palmer biuam, Shenang K20.000.000 Worthy Of Work. yest Foy A bill was passed authorizing the Sprinfield rifles, bayonets 3a et scabbards to independent military companies composed of veterans the War of the Rebellion Frank H. Hosford. g DOWsPay COrTesp 2 sans otf Sosy GOnaLIon of well known at Wa represen a ondent sh- 1 who former wiroit Fre ington, iy ted the ted gui u hg throat de bs Basi Consideration of bill was Measure $5,210,611, jesse than The propriation of over $30,000,000 which the ©s8- is chairman of the Affairs, «declared Senator Hall, Committee on Naval on the floor of the Senate that the cruise of the battleship fleet to the Pacific was to impress Japan Lilley a Representative issued Boat Company had made an excess tracts with the government The House voted down tien ealling on. President a Roosevelt Against New Orieans Orlea papers ann i the begin- ning ol i ¢an in well-known norse tl stato 3 names of this cily were printed as signers of a petition sentation meets in 1 100 racig is many Pro betting i ia Is wit EN. Y. : 4 Michael t the foot ‘orbett yr Willis Ave way and t 3 mourners the cellar. corpse slid When the men and been rescued it wns nine had need of which were waiting Sy racus the ¢ hom feil into from the coffin womoen had all discovered that the ambulances was being suppresed Senator LaFollette's Lill for gion power to suspend any tariff Governor Magoon of Cuba, will protest against the quarantine which the United States government has announced will be instituted against Cuba after April 1. Official reports received at the State Department from Minister Fur- niss, at Port au Prince, indicate that the crisis in Hayti has passed. Representative Hardy, of Texas, in a speech in the House opposed both the Aldrich and the Fowler bills. The Republic of Liberia has ap- pealed to the United States to pro. tect her against French encroach- ment. It was stated in the House that 45.768 names had been stricken from the pension roll last year by death. Criminal proceedings are to be in- stituted aginst the Chesapeake and Ohio for misbilling freight and cheat- ing the Seaboard and Atlantic Coast Line. : i { and the funcral services ceeded. Two Killed, Three Injured. Woodsville, N. H.—(8pecial).- head-on collision between pro- in a two division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. about a mile and a hau south of the Haverhill Station, Engi neer BE. BE. Gross and Fireman Con- verse. both of Concord, were killed. and Fireman A. T. Davig of Woods ville was fatally injured. Engineer Guy Dow of Woodsville and Brake man Noonan were serigusly hurt and other members of the train crew were badly shaken up. On the Pennsylvania Railroad's lines, cast of Pittsburg, there are 952 more locomotives than passenger cars to handle the traffic. There are in service on these lines 4,008 loco. motives and 3,147 passenger cars. AAR AA SAA The Paris motor omnibuses use a mixture of equal parts of alcohol and benzol for fuel. The average con. sumption is nine centiliters a ton kilometer. ‘ Of the 387 recorded ministers of the Society of Friends in Great Brit- ain 153 are women. Ca i
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