SHALL BOAT UPSET IND NINE DROWND An Outing on the Susquehanna Ends Sadly, THE ONLOOKERS UNABLE TO AID. Women And Children In The Party, All Of Whom Were Lost—FPanic Among Those On Board When The Boat Begins To Ship Water Has Tragic Results — A Number Of Ithacans Narrowly Escape A Similar Fate. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special) .— Overcrowded in a small boat upon the Susquehanna River, at Port Grif- fith, near here, a pleasure party of nine was upset and all were drown- ed. The list of the victims is as fol- lows: William aged 27; dren. Theodore aged leaves dren. Thomas Andrews, aged 20; single. Frank Marianosky, ; leaves wife and three children. Adam Strukus, Providence, 24; single. Andrews, Port Griffith, leaves wife and three chil- Providence, and e&ix chil- Andrews, 36; wife Providence, 36. Mrs. Frank aged 32. John 12. William Andrews, of Port Griffith, was entertaining a number of rela- tives from Providence, Lackawanna County, and after dinner took them out for a boat ride. There crowd- ed into a small boat seven men, cluding Andrews and his sister-in- Jaw and a little nephew, started out. Andrews was at the pair of Oars. He rowed broadside to the current and had gone a few yards from shore when the boat was caught in the rush of the waters and swept quickly down stream. People on shore saw Andrews struggle with the oars when he rea lized that the boat was getting be- yond control, and then the accident happened quickly. One of the men in the stern mov- ed forward to help Andrews with the oars. This caused the to rock and ship some water Those seated there stood boat rocked more, a wild scramble persons. The next moment upset and all the occupants thrown into the water None of those on shore nessed the accident could thing to them, boats were available three minutes nothing sight except the boat floatl upward and some distance down river. Andrews lived only a short tance from the river bank and his wife and three children, upon learn- ing of the accident, rushed to the ghore Mrs. Andrews tried to jump into but was restrained Ganofski, Ganofski, Providence, aged single Ooniy ¥ boat the up The and then followed the frightened the boat were * at Ld of do no any- other thar aal as In remained in bottom rescue 1 ng the v dis- 1 the water, from Wryomin Ws gent across the river by Captain Robinson and th hav charge of tbh the work of searching fo the bodies Coroner Jodson has or- dered an inquiry. One of boys witnessed the tragedy said that the man who was rowing seemed to dip | too deep. This, he said, water lash over the boat ¢ woman, in order to as the to move to the craft his ing of the caused boa? rapidly with wat and in few minu Las ow ® vey 2% ced ing floundering the rushing = thoy po » the who iia OArsS cause to gide T water stern started of geat the 81 the 11 or fill : r i all were fvor rivers tes i : The two boys grabbed the clothing of their mothe as the boat toppled over and the three disappeared almoty instantly The river is high and the swift cur- rent carried three of the men to with- in 50 feet of the bank, while the others were drowned within a stone a throw of the scene of the accident. IMPRISONED IN MINE, Two Men Caught In A Fall Of Top Rock At Pottsville. Pottsville, Pa oned by a fall of top rock for 36 hours, Thomas Buscavage and John Master, miners employed at the Mo- rea Colliery, were rescued uninjured by a big force of workmen who had been engaged in the dangerous task of saving them. The men were imprisoned for ten hours before their condition became known the work of digging them out commenced tapping was heard from the inside indicating that at least one of the men was alive They saved themselves from being erushed to death by improvised props made out of the picks and shovels. After Was Against New York Intermarrvinge, (Special) .—Dr Harrison, of Temple Israel, Louis, stoutly opposed the marriages of Jews! and Christians in a sermon at the here. Fusion, he said, would result in confusion, while "intermar- riage would siniply mean not that the vast majority would be drawn to israel, but that we of Israel would be overwhelmingly merged and lost n Christendom.” St. Killed In His Own Trap. Logansport, Ind. (Special) Schuyler Holley was instantly killed by a trap he had prepared to kill a thief that had been entering his chicken-house. He had arranged an old muzzle-loading pi#tol so that if the door of the chicken-house should be opened the pistol would be dis- charged. This morning he forgot to disconnect the trap before h\ opened the door of the house and thy heavy load of the pistol was discharged into his breast, MANY HURT IN EXPLOSION Explosive Hidden in Basket of Vegetables. An Exciting Incident In Buenos Ayres — One Of The Police Com- missioners And Three Of His Ase sistants Injured — The Outrage Probably Committed By A Strike Sympathizer, . Buenos Ayres (Special).—The ex- plosion of a bomb at the corner of Corrientes and Corito Streets injured 20 persons, four of them seriously, and caused great excitement for a time. The bomb was hidden in a basket of vegetables which was plac- | ed on the platform of a tram car, | presumably by someone in sympathy | with the strike inaugurated on May | Day. i A passenger heard a nolse like the ticking of a clock coming from | the basket and informed the police, | The basket was removed by an offi- | cer and the explosion followed almost | immediately. Among the injured 18 | Dr. Victor Aguilar, an under com- | missioner of police, and three police agents. A little girl who was passing by | had both legs fractured and other | persons were more or less injured. | One arrest has been made in con- | with the affair i A number of cars and cabs were | disorder attending through the streets, at a standstill and suffered enormously result of the strike. In faci gituation had become 80 bad government took steps tol act with t utmost ene to put an end to present of af- fairs. ficulty and their progress Business some ¢ has 88 Aa the that the voy rey he ie th Lae state FOUGHT SQUAD OF POLICE, Fighting Italian Twice Empties Re- | volver And Womuls Four, | Pittsburg. —Three persons were in- | jured in a battle between Tony Trap- poli, a street cleaner, and a gquad of policemen who were trying to of stabbing are shot in charge 1e injured him Vaught Mrs condition Tony i Policeman left eve. H. Vaught, stabbed in bad after midnight, Vaus was passing Trappoll’ tercation arose ir aiid to have r and stabbed rtly Trappoli th is af reet Vaught The police were notified and a few later several of them went to Trappoll's home to arrest him Admission was refused and the officers started break the door down Trappoli pened fire Empts reolver is said to have and all cartridges again The returned the fire and it was not till a score of shots had been changed that Trappoli ered. The police clain poli shot his wife when in front of him the fusilade. a hours to : in his eloaded 2 he r fired police a its Hh at the begl * » 3 e DERI GIFT FOR TAFT SEIZED, Gold Hilted Sword In Hands Of U, 5, Treasury Agents, -A a bit {Snecial). finely with of solid have be brought to this country as a gift for President Ta't, nf i oriental art objec i freasury agents i were found Russians According to the Treasury agents, the men admitted having brough articles ashore, bnt insisted that they was one several hundre ts seized by gpecia 1 here a in the possessio © $ sha t the The sword. they said, wag intended ag a present to the President of the Unted States from many Russian friends,” and to have been presented to President Taft an official of the Rusesiegn Embassy CALLS DOWN THE CZAR Premier Stolypin Accuses Him scheming Against Ministry, St. Petersburg (By Cable),.—-Pre- mier Stolypin returned here from Tearskoe-8elo, whither he went to demand of Emperor that His Majesty disassociate himself from the hostile campaign of the reaction aries and the or accept the resignations of the en- | tire cabinet it was declared ment circles that mperor reserved his decizion on Bill, the queation on which mier hae made his stand. it ia considered almost certain that! iis Majesty's decision will take al orm under which the Stolypin cabi- nei will remain in olfice IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE Highest price for flour in ten years | WAS by or | ¥ tae ater the in govern ad Naval | the Pre- the I f i Price of light steel rails has again been advanced and it is now $27 a ton. : Michigan Central stockholders ap- | proved plans for a $6,000,000 termi- nal at Detroit. Daily pig iron production in April wag 57,062 tons against 59,232 tons in March. The 8t. Paul Railroad has order- i { ! { ed 60,000 tons of steel rails at $28 the ton from ®nited States Steel, John D., Rockefeller is alleged to be willing to aid powerfully in financ- | ing the Western Maryland--hence the | rige in the stock. { Chesapeake & Ohio's Executive | Committee recommended an increase in dividend from 1 per cent. to 4 per cent, annually. The Philadelphia Saving Fund's deposits of over $02,000,000 are greater than were ever held by any Other banking institution in Pennsyi- vania, NATION PAYS TRIBUTE 10 POPULAR POET Statue of Longfellow at Washington. PRESIDENT TAFT NOT THERE Chief Justice Fuller Presides At The Ceremonies In Honor Of The New England Singer — Noted ' Repre- sentatives Of Other Countries Are Present—Many Relatives Of The Writer Witness The Impressive Unvail Ceremonies, Washington, D. C.—The nation did | honor to Henry Wadsworth Longfel- low, when in the presence of thou- of foreign na- tions and American cities a splendid statue of the American poet was unveiled. The great bronze fig- | ure representing the poet, seated, | and with a book im his hand, placed upon a block of Bonacord | brought from Sweden and in Scotland The figure of the poet {8 the work of William | Couper, of New York City The statue is on the little triangle of grass at Connecticut Avenue, eenth | and M Streets ! A grandchild the representatives in toh “ght of silken cord which broke loose enfolding flags, revealing the monu- ment. As the flags FY floated upward and remained in the he poet pulled | the air | w, carved in revealed, the great silent for a into a spontaneous cheer labor, ple- bronze, throne Larong was was then broke It [4 was the cupying and ions thosuands and th great its the a for resented YEeAars com tion, contribu- ousands of ties and 1¢ whole broad did honor translated hamlets | land. to into language, have American life iful word he nearly Sung i have noet | : : ures inn fe or Weston Supreme the ceremonies President don idea veiling, ing Taft was an of al un in ! he or some Mr. Taft's eve riding eve, over which bandage. A insect flow he was is gnat into Tas Hh ¢ aor ba re little Presi- irritated Hi he glare of the bad for the venture Attorney fr for i on f ‘nd ol natio resent the Others Were representa- of Europe and American pub- hington whose } &Very great torts vernm of re {zens ®, Cit 4) a AMPS Are og se i * n Pe nt of tt ie capi Quake Sufferers. Homes For : Lieu- Messina, Sicily (Special) R. R. naval attache over the 400 used the Commander American turned Messina a wooden houses to ing sufferers from of December tenant Belknap, Rome, of the at has to prefect of be total American in shelter- earthquake attache ex- ouses will be com- Wood for 700 already has Deen | small villages in the sf last he pects that 2. pleted by June houses additional sent out to 300 } . - ‘ Maneuvers In The Chesapeake. Washington, D. C he vessels of the Atlantic battleship | will begin their record target | practice off the Chesapeake Bay on | August 1 When the ships have completed this record practice they will take up the battle target prac-| { Special) | 4 ice tar- hav. | ome « battleships have done this shooting on the high seas, heretofore always utilized s bay. Hitching Rail “Dry Issue. Bloomington, Ind. (Special) the seat of the Indiana '¥. the old-fashioned hiteh- | in the public square has be | in the local ln come an issue campaign, which ig to close election May 25. Farmers, indignant because the broken down hitching rail around the new Courhouse has not been replaced by the City Coun- cil, threaten to vote “"wet' Mers chants and County Commissioners are siding with the farmers, option 3 with an 0 - Aged Woman Breaks Neck, Chester.—While dropping a roll of carpet from the rear second-story window of her home Miss Elizabeth Rathgabe, aged 62 years, plunged head foremost to the ground and broke her neck. Cut Woman's Throat In Woods. Boston (Special). While walking through a patch of woods near the lower Mystic Lakes, Arlington, Thomas Lynch attacked Mrs, Emma Gleason and cut her throat with a knife, Lynch then shot and killed himself. Mra. Gleason js still alive, but her condition is critical. She is the wife of Thomas Gleason, of Ar- lington, and is 34 years of age. Lynch wag 32 years old and was married, The police say the tragedy was undoubtedly due to an unsettled KILLED BY HIS FATHER-IN-LAW Secreted Child Bride Washington. Washington, D. C. (S8pecial).— Albert Willard fired three shots into his son-in-law, Irving W. Beck, the latter stood in his grocery store, at 200 N Street, southeast, The wounded man wag hurried to the Casuality Hospital, where he died. Willard was arrested. The shooting was the result ‘of a bitter’ family Beck, who {8 33 years old, Man in an about three weeks ago. Bhe was 2 schoolgirl of 14, wearing short dress- es when she married. Her parents objected for a long time to the mar- riage. According to a statement which Willard made while in the police station, the parents consented to the marriage only when Beck the marriage. ‘But, wedding, he took away and her parents have not been able to locate her since, “1 have ontreated him and mother has pleaded with him with tears in her eves to tell us where our little zirl is,” sald Willard while in hig cell ‘We think she is and her mother is grief. 1 with him for asked him for with them after on the Aay of the { h went to his store fo settle and [I did last time where gaid he would not would him” good the #1 Then | entered and she come home Willard hier o me if n glint eek 's store d in a inv He about tn quarrel left involve ame hig the an hour, know the Y I BOnN~-1L~ 18 returne again d vhoereabouts of reply, if, unsatisfactory, 1 Willard out hig revolver ‘Ran The first she hest, ext hird lodg 1 s danghte indeed ied i : any, Ww hipped firing f stra entered n t 14 Postmasters, Blame The gton, 1. C an order artment Wtmagters to been reported Hitchcock by Treasury "EY to Postmaster General the Secre Boni's Case Again In Court. Paris he en by Count Boni de Castellane from im of the down December {8pecial) T appeal tak- 3 the Frencl decisic handed three court ain in the custody the S008 their de mother Sagan, was the Count. repeated ments made the iaid stress on the had renounced ey. He of the Prince Count’s children ‘rincess Bonnet, hig argu- lower court and fact that the Count aim to any 1 insisted that the influ de Sagan r over was ious present argued M n his cl noe the Der pel Ridnappers Foiled, Cal kidnap the eight Gillett Prison, B. Clifton, a notorious serving time for ¢ of Detective Hod- had ar- a confederate on he outside to steal the boy and hold him for ranson The price the Iad's return to his father was to have Qakland, { Special) -year-old son o inearthed when it ¢ { Governor £ San Quentin WAS found that J criminal, who attempting the | ging, of Oakland, rangements with * is if completed of Tragedy In Alabama City, Huntsville, Ala t Special). —J here in a shooting affair by A L. Palgey, a Hunteville business man BY TELEGRAPH Alfonso Zelayer, son of the Presi- theatre, while his wife sells tickets at the door. Judge William L. Penfield, for. solicitor general of the De- partment of State, died from stomach Rear Admiral R. P. Rogers has been detached from duty as chief intelligence officer and ordered Lo duty as commandant of the naval station at Narragansett Bay, New- port. R. 1. All the governments except Gers many which have been sounded have assented to the wish of China for a conference to consider the rails ing of her tariff rates. Royal E. Cabell, of Richmond, Va., has been selected to succeed John G. Capers, of South Carolina, as commissioner of internal revenue, Diplomatic and official Washington joined to do honor to the memory of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at the unveiling of a statue of the poet. Representative J. Hampton Moore would make each 12th of October a legal holiday, to be known as “Columbus Day.” The battleships Maine and New Hampshire, now at Guantanamo, have been ordered to Portsmouth, N. : ‘Resolutions were introduced in the House and Senate to forbid railroads A own stock in subsidiary compan LONG LOST CREW OF They Are Said To Be In a Venezue- lan Dungeon, HAD BEEN MOURNED AS DEAD, Remarkable Story Brought By An American Seaman, Who Says The Captain And Men Of A Supposed To Have Been Lost At Sea Five Years Ago, Were Made Prisoners Insurance Company Has Paid Policies, Kingstown, 8t. Vincent, (Special) .—It may be that Capt lin Stephenson and the American whaling Knowles, long since thought been lost at sea, are still Venezuelan prison An Americai B. W. 1 Col- crew D ship Carrie alive in a 95,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN MASSACRE Thousands of Brutal So'diers Looting and Burning Soldiers, Pretending To Throw Water On The Flames, Apply Kerosene Instead——No Respect Paid To Fors eign Properties—Fears For Amer fcan Missionary Stations At Had- jin And Tarsus—35,000 Homeless Refugees—Many Young Girls Care ried Off To Harems, Tarsus, Asiatic --Authentic details committed by medans in the villa this district Tarsus The ratives cannot Turkey (Epecial). the atrocities ai fanatic Moham- ges the are wit} worst seaman, who gives the name an escaped prisoner Venezuela, has made his wa) where he laid before authorities an astounding the geizure of the Carrie D at a Venezuelan port, where ago in distress, and the incarceration by the of the captain and ed are there {8 truth i ave slory Knowles ghee Years bi nis conving the that h a taken Huey and have looking iv } atement iO & vestigation of o 7 ! 27, 1904 from January wiles sailed Mass a tain Collin first on whailr Was mate, B ca captain a « ere and wn that men are confined of Payne's ot known charge aii The Shah's Promises Teheran {Special).—At the request Said cently forels eral former now a ) premier. The proclamations the resumption and the other Neal Y lot for a long time been the diplomatic Great Britain Shah ha One anno the const ing p h of these concessions demanded representatives and Russia Come two of Oil rar Eran had bs of Shot Down By Black Hand. Pittsburg (Special) Frank Ross McKeesport, a suburb, was ously shot while paseing a row of tenements occupied by Italians and is expected to die. He told the po- it is done by who feared mysteri- believed the shooting was Hand members Niagara Barrel Man Dead, Detroit (Special) Capt. D Graham, aged years, achieved fame by sucessfully making the perilous trip through the Niagara rapids five times, died at of his sister here from a cold. Four times Captain Grabam went through the rapide in a barrel and once he swam the distance. » 8 To Protect Young Morals, Albany, N. Y. (Special) After September 1 it will be a misde- meanor to admit to a Kinetoscope or moving-picture performance, or any place of entertainment injurious to health or morals. anv child under the age of 16 years, unless accompaniod by parent or guardian, A bill em- bodying this prohibition was signed by Governor Hughes Charged With Witeheraft, Butler, Pa. (8pecial).—Alleged by her accuser to be a witch, Mrs. Lau- paule Ober was tried on a charge of disorderly conduct, was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and serve 10 days In jail. The charge was preferred by Mrs. Julia Kroner, who alleged that Mrs. Ober went into Mrs. Kroner's barn and by the use of witchcraft cast a spel over a cow, which had prevented it from siving milk, That something had been done to the animal was forth east 10,000 perso this province tr IS GOO Villa gE Hamadlieh, which broke ou in tae that : ¢ Pafuxent of Benedict, th and ited in practically struction of half of the The fire ated store- room occupied by liyman Washinsky, and before it was gotten con- trol, in Of this number 12 were dwelling houses, three stores and the other a Methodist Church only recently | built Perhaps the greatest 108s Was | suffered by Augustine M. Bowling, vice president and general manager of the Woodlawn Cemetery Company of Baltimore City, who owned the { store building occupied by Washin- sky and five of the dwelling liouses, | practically all of Mr. Bowling's ex- | tensive property holdings in the | stricken village. The dwelling houses and stores of 0. F. nenderson and M. ‘T. Johnson were destroyed, as were the dwelling houses of J E, {| Stewart: RK. E. Farrall. Peter Morgan and Willian Roach In less than two hours all of the above-mentioned buildings were deo stroyed., The fire is said to have been cansed Ly the upsetting of a coal-oil stove in the Washinsky store, The total loss i# estimated at be tween $40,000 and $50,000, partial ly covered by insurance. Many of the buildings that were destroyed by the fire had been erect od only a few years. The condition of the village at this time iz most deplorable, as there are hardly enough houses remaining to accommodate the families that were rendered homeless by the fire. For 10 years after he is licensed to practice, a Japanese physician is re. quired to keep books showing the names, ages and addresses of patl- ents, their diseases and the treatment given them. resy village in the origin under 16 buildings were ashes To make the gathering of a swarm of bees Jess hazardous, an Ohlo man has patented a funnel which may be placed about a swarm and closed withouy any of the bees escaping. A 0 RA A The United States uses nearly ones third of the world's production of cocoa. indicated by the testimony.
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