ONE HUNDRED LOST AT SEA Work of Rescue Impeded By Dark- ness and Sharks. SURVIVORS CLUNG TO THE WRECKAGE ———— Steamer La Seyne And Onda In Collision Early Sunday Morning. The Seyne, Bound From Java To Singapore, Nearly Cut In Two Sinks In Five Minutes, The Ma- jority Of Those On Board Going Down With The Ship-—Baron And Baroness Beniczky Among Those Who Perished—Sixty-one Rescued | From Sharks. RECORD OF DISASTERS. 1892 Steamer Utopia, sunk in collision; G63 lost, | 1802 — Steamer Victoria, wreck; 360 wrecked, 1882 Steamer Elbe, sea; 3681 drowned. July 4, 1398-—French steam- ship La Bourgoyne, rammed and sunk by the ship Comartyshire, off Pablo Island; 560 lives lost. 1804 — The General Slocum, bursed and sank and more than 1,000 lives lost. July 3, 1904 Norge, sunk at lost, April 12 1908 Paul, rammed by the British cruiser Gladiator, off Isle of Wight; 100 sailors drowned. July 28, 1908—Steamship Ying King, foudered off Hongkong; 800 Chinese drowned November 1908—8Steam- ship San Pablo, sunk off the Philippines; 100 drowned. December 13, 1908 ship Ginsei Maru, wrec Wei-Hai- Wei; crew gers lost December 4, foo City, foun foundland; crew lost. January 23, 1809 liner Republe, sunk off Rantucket Shoals souls aboard. Fi lost at Steamship sea; T5650 lives Steamship St. - i » oam- 1908 lered Steamship of Now- White in Star collision with T00 lives lost 3 ve Singapore (Special). steamer La Sevne, Maritimes Service, Java amd Singapore, to this port, was in c« this morning with the steamer Onda, of the British-India Line, and sank within two 3 Seven Euro- pean passengers, including Baron and Baroness Beniczky, the captain of La Seyne, five European and 88 others, comori gers and member { drowned. The resc practically from the of sharks, formed a dent of the wreck The accident o'clock in the haze, he vessels were good speed and the waa almost in half. There was no time for panic nor for any attempt on the part of the officers of the found ering steamer out the boats The majority of these on board were caught in their berths and carried down with the The force of the the Onda to almost her engines were at once slowed boats lowered. The rescue work proved thrilling, for not only were the rescuing parties impeded by the dark, but shoals of sharks were al- ready attacking those clinging to pleces of wreckage .in the water. Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated steamer were finally dragged into the boats and brought by the Onda to this port. Many of them had: been bitten by sharks and several | are severely injured. of the lig! ofee rs, tive passen- Were IONS8 yala inci- yl jaws thrilling of she . about 4 a thick steaming at g cut OCCurre d morning It Senne to get vou 1 collision ght a dead stop and and brou Woman Kills With Acid. Clarksburg, W. Va. (Speclal).— Mrs. Charlotte Wilburn, wife of Walter A. Wilburn, a miner at the Ogara Coal and Coke Company's mine, at Phoenixville, is dead of carbolic acid burns, and Mrs. Prud- ence Pollock, wife of Robert Pol- lock, pit boss at the mine, is a pris- oner in the county jail, accused of throwing the deadly acid in her face this morning at the Wilburn home It is understood that the two wom- en quarreled, and several ounces of the acid were thrown into Mrs. Wil- burn's face, and it is said that Mra. Pollock threw it while furious with anger. Mrs. Wilburn died within 15 minutes after the acid was thrown. A Florida Limited Wrecked. . Knoxville, Tenn. (Special) — Three trainmen were killed when the Cin- cinnati-Florida Li:iited train No. 34, on the Louisville and Nashville Rail. road, was wrecked in a head-on ecol- lision with a freight at Leinerts. The passengers escaped with a shaking | up. The freight was standing on the main line at Leinerts. The pas- | senger train crashed into it at al speed of 50 miles an hour. The trainmen were buried under the wreckage of the locomotives, Al steel mailcar behind the passenger | locomotive protected the passenger | coaches from serious damage. Roast Chicken By Wholesale, Hutchinson, Kas. (Special). ed to death when fire destroyed the | plant of the United States Packing | Co. her e. The loca was $50 L000. Twenty-Four Cars Wrecked. Altoona, Pa. (Bpecial).—A run- away freight train eastbound over _ the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into the rear of another freight a short distance west of the horseshoe curve and twenty-four cars were wrecked, ing all tracks for several hours. runaway freight was heavy and the falls, was bad from mists, On the istsep ope the engineer last control, a She escaped Jnjurs 4 oF Now orings Rains: HOLDS UP BANK Kills Cashier and Wounds President of Institution. Red-Headed Youth Of 17 Forces An Auto Driver, At Point Of Revol. ver To Drive Him To A Louisville (Ky.) Bank — Begins Shooting With Two Revolvers — President And Cashier Fall — Flees In The Auto—Captured On River And Life Threatened, -In an Thomas youth dealer (Special). at bank robbery Hall, a red-headed of Loulsville, Lousiville, Ky, Jefferson of seventeen, in second-hand furniture, entered Merchants’ National Bank at New Albany, Ind., shortly before noon and killed J. Hangary Fawcett, cashier of the bank, seriously wounded John K. Woodward, president of the bank, a ne- a fatally. thee bank he hand Aft- to throw the vault, When Hall entered {carried a pistol in each jer commanding eveyone his hands and '‘get into up a rush for safety and several transacting business There was in the President Woodward adve the #robber and attempted to him The robber's re Mr. Woodward's question what wanted was two which the official i inflicting to sponse P a to shots, arm @erous talk Was struck stomach, wounds. Cashier Fawcett before he fallen president was and breast, dying erward Cashier Faweett was sh chest and tantly Fre in t Gang then rushed could shot a short Following dererrushed {0 escapo~in any had tak from the residence ter Escott, forced the point of a i the bank The robber, still a word, walked front door, volvers just outside Turning the comer to where tomobile stood he pumped rear with the comman negro, out of this as autome the « its ow Louis negro chauffeur to of Ol ile jatol drive without quit (ly dropping one of building the au- nto the to the fast as the seat “Get you can.” ut the auton negro, tho roughly course fis The drew into later speed down where he jumped into a skiff He had pulled out into the stream before ed citize the town and bank knew what had happened gail on a dredge boat, seeing rowing frantically for the shore, gave the alarm megaphone Owners of river craft then ed in a race for the desperado police, however, in a motor boat tanced all followers and in a& short time had their man at bay on an island just south of the big bridge connecting New Albany with West Louisville They covered him with revolvers and the arrest was made without a fight stil, the at the move stood htened its, refu to umped to the g ver and sent a b gro's back. An | assassin was runn bank wobile frig sing round re bb 1G a illet the the stant at top Tid the to the Ohio, BOs the } river One the ns of old or the man Kentucky through a engag- The dis- Ss — LARGE INCREASE IN EXPORTS. $21,000,000 In Domestic Products More Than Last October. Washington, D. C. (Special). — An increase of more than $21,000, 000 In the value of the exports of domestic products from the United States is shown for the month of October, compared with a like period last year, the respective totals be- ing $123.643,720, against $101 048 Exports of wheat declined 12,032,148 bushels for 1908, to RK, 766.410 bushels ber, 190% Exports of meat and ucts fell accordingly. Corn ton exports increased from October, in Octo- dairy prod- and cot- HALF MILLION IN TIPS. Head Waiter At New York Restan- rant Worth A Fortune. New York (Special). his savings were so wisely invested Delmonico’s, that when he died re- cently he left an estate valued at half a million dollars, This amount of the estate became known when his wife applied for letters of adminis {tration of the estate, Prior to becoming head waiter, i Thieiman from 1872 had worked as #n ordinary waiter in Delmonico’s. Cripple Kills Wife And Self, Jacksonville, Fla. (Bpecial). martial troubles of ‘standing Louis W, Lewis, most instant death, eripple and conducted a small soft | drink stand near his home. Bit Tormondtor And Died Roswell, N. M, (Special). As a result of swallowing mefeury In a thermometer which she crushed be. tween her teeth as her father was taking her temperature, Ceectl, the 5- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mra, Earl P. Atwa, ls dead. Within 16 oo after swallowing the con- of the thermometer the child ‘was unconscious, and when the doo tor arrived she pulse. i i i { | { RAY OF HOPE FIR ~~ THE ENTONBED MINERS Many Doubt, “However, That Life Could Exist in the Mine, OBEDIENCE THAT WAS FATAL Mine Experts With ( And Steel With Oxygen Tanks And Glass Helmets Penetrate The St. Paul Mine To A Depth Of 300 Feet, No Trace And Find Of High Temperature, But Much Refusal Of Engineer Smoke And Cowley To Disobey Orders Cost Several ese Lives, GiB cuers' BIG MINE DISASTERS Johnstown, Pa.. 112 dead Harwick, 1904 189 dead Hanna, Wyo, 200 dead Pas De Calais, France, March 10, 1506 Over 1.000 dead Pocahontas Mine, Virginia, 1884 dead Monongah Mine, Fairmont, W Va., December 1. 1807 350 dead. Darr Fr 158, July 11, 1%02 Pa., January 28, June 1803 “ 30, 307 Mine, Darr, 1907 «40 d Marianna Mine NOV Pa., cad Decem bie 5 mber Bri 100 cCOorcussion nn felt by farm south the mails pori was sent fir an officer Burke rushed and exclaimed ‘I've heard signals from the men John Reid's boys says that he and tarme rs whose land is over the sonth- ern end of the mine felt several con cussions of the earth There were several shocks, and the men who felt them are convinced that they were shots fired by the Imprisoned miners to signal to the people above that they still live. “Would the shots mean that or that the miners had committed sul- cide to end their agony?” asked the railroad president “The men report,” replied Burke. “that the signals were distinct and that they were meant for an assur- ance that at least some of them live." “Oh, I hope #80,” sald Mr. Barling. “That is at least encouraging. is bes of #i the to of mining » ih wy President WHITE MAN LYNCHED AND NEGRO BURNED Second Attack on Jal To Hang White Murderer, B—— Lynchers, After All-Night Belize Train And Capture James, Colored, Who Shopgirl—Women Assist Lynching In City Square—Rope Breaks And Corpse In Riddled With Shot—Dragged A Mile And Burned-—Mob Becks Accomplice, Falls To Fnd Him, So It Wreaks Vengeance © nr Wifeslayer. Chase, Will Assaulted At The 1k 12 He white, a photographer, his wife Caira, November SBalzner, airy who ax, M. tele. last July with taken from jafl at 11.4 by .the mob and hanged to graph pole and his body lets, This on the “rn Pp “ Wus 6 lynching lynching of 8 negro, who earlier had been hanged fo: murder of Miss Annie Pelley Covernor Deneen, who i wns apn aled who telepho troops were ordered State Guard nob gave aiter neck, but he could § had killed the the in bs 2 from BAY 11 companies to Cairo salzner to ned HeCe Davis, OF the confes his that Onis lexander f fan i $4 JBMER ID +L nee over the girune io of the city and at whe heat ¢ tea FORE, # body into hi fession n Arthe Alex w searching for CO and negro mob iz no r ander, EMPEROR WILL NOT FLY. His in (S51 Wife Not To An Aeroplane. Em Promises Go Up wi re ecial) to Count Z« his fear that he would never experience the gensation of fiying in the air. He said he had promised the Empress that he would never make an ascent either In a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane His Maj esty added that the Empress regard- ed all air crafts as extremely peril- ous. Count Zeppelin has had the hon- or of having as passengers in his airships two kings, two queens and many princes and princesses, and these royal flights have been given much publicity, Der Reichbots, a daily paper which has the distinetion of being one of those read regular ly by the Empress, publishes many letters from correspondents who ex- press regret that Crown Prince life, by making an peror lam confided ppelin cently Higher Pay For Engineers. New Haven, Conn. (Special). Locomotive engineers of the New! York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company have given the thirty days’ notice required previous to a request for a revision of the wage schedule, It is thought that this is a part of the general movement of railroad operatives east of the who ask for shorter increased pay and a full day a fractional run hours, pay for Cage To Matty Again. +d San Diego, Cal. (Special).-—<It was that on Thanksgiving Day Lyman J. Gage, former Secre-! tary of the Treasury under MeKin- ley, will marry Miss Ada Ballou, danghter of George L, Ballou, mil lionaire tea and spice importer. Miss Ballou is a young woman very popu- lar in San Diego and Coronado soai- ety. Declines To Be Governor, { Albuquerque, N., M. (Specialy | ~William Robinson, editor of the! Register-Tribune, announe-| recently The resignation of ext | \ Mr. Robinson said that! he would rather stay in the news| Paper business than hold any office.’ A A Se IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE AH SOM There was another boost in cotton, Kingdon Gould was elected a di- rector of the Manhattan Rall®ay. Wella-Fargo Express stock jumped Nn Boi to 514, a new high record or One report has it that United Statea Stes] wi will | Surcinse the Pitts butg Son Coal Com parse EEL ft, dend class. 1 CULEBRA CUT HALF DONE, Steady Progress Being Made On The Panama Canal, Washington, D. C. (Special).- The cut at Culebra, the backbone of the Isthmus of Panama, was half completed on October 23, 39.002,.- 299 cubic yards having been excava- ted. This gigantic cut will be nine miles long, 300 feet wide at the bot- be 40 feet above the normal level of the water being fixed at 856 feet above the sen. Its completion is said to be as- sured within four years, Only 2,827,798 cuble vards were excavated on the Panama Canal dur- ing October, as compared with 2,836,385 cubic yards in September. But the amount of concrete laid dur- ing the month of October—41,650 amount laid the previous month. Fires Home; Cuts ‘Wife. Richmond, Ky. (Special). —After getting fire to his own house in Kingston, near here, Cassius Moody | bullding in the yard committed sui. cide by drinking carbolie acid. Mrs. | | Moody crawled to the road in front jof the house and died in the pres ence of neighbors who were attract ed to the place by the fire. Moody is sald to have been crazed by drink. "Woman A Bulcide, ‘New York (Special),—Mrs. Marie L. Estey, 67 years old, who lived at 109 West Seventy-seventh Street, was found dead in bed. In her mouth wae the end of a rubber tube extend. ing from a nearby gas jet showing that she had committed suicide. The tube was held in her mouth notified of the odor of the house Dy one of the malas DRIVEN INSANE BY HER CRIME Woman Haunted For Years By Hus- band's Murder, HER DAUGHTER TELLS IT ALL Cold-Blooded Murder By Mrs. Brod enhayer Four Years Ago Preys On Her Mind So That Her Rea. son leaves Her—8he Lured Her Husband Into A Deserted house And Then Shot Him Her Daughter Then Helped Her Dispose Of The Body. Down Brod- Wis,, Henry of Madison, Chicago (B8pecial) enhayer, a jeweler, who was in the to have been murdered by killed by his wife, Brodenheyer, now a patient Insane Asylum, confeasion made by Clara their daughter, to Assi Police Beheuttler girl, who is 18 vears old mother had slain her had aided in disposing oi how the crime had dri ingane and how the had ha her had to tell it Miss Brodenhever, after of the tragedy, swWo removed by order the hot of friend will n yer, nerly had used the he had rem found dead robbers i Chief The of father she body, he ory how the her mo rible st Bhs nied § the stor She was police 1 LO ae probabil at ie Progect i i who was 42 prodent age, ana CREO, fix i IavEgQ ar alous aro &ionus; wife after GV gon al nfessed t sid her From Foothall Kick. OF WASHINGTON i: BY TELEGRAPH President Devries, of the United States Board of General Appraisers, reported that there was a large per- centage of undervaluation of goods imported from the Orient the Ban Francisco Custom house Commanding officers of the Phil-| ippine Islands favor radical changes in the present system of allowing double time to soldiers serving the islands in bis annual Marshall, chief of United States Army, recommends an increase of officers for the engineer corps. The fourth of a series American Congresses will be Buenos Ayres, Argentine between July 15 and next The State Department has asked to explain the newly negotia- ted treaty between that country and Spain Secretary of the Interior Balling- er lssued orders for the tion of the water-power public lands Henry Litchfield West, the board of district commissione of the District of Columbia, resigned | to become associated with Scott C. report General | of Pan. held at Republic, 20 rights on General United States Brigadier Rochester, Army, i i A SCORNED WOMAN WILL REVEAL ALL ‘ntimates Rival Got $543000 of Missing Funds. Mrs. Jeannette Stewart Denes That She Shared In Peculations Of Treasurer Charles 1. Warriner, Of Tae Big Four Raitroad, By Blackmaling Official—Suys An other Woman, Whom She Thought Was Her Friend, Enjoysd Riches And Turned On Her.” Cincinnati, Jeannette Mra cused by Ohio Mrs Btewart, One Charles local ailroad, peculations by iared she ie slory (5; almo the 10d Enarwn Vrain as lL. Warrmer, de urer of Lhe Big having shared is black malling him would tell the whole in of the $642 thoM then the to court Mes Blewart had ever eivad money ar Ford, of faulting {resis Liens ¢ Od re WHT 1 he Bil Caused arrel Women ner dden breaking of her sllenes ng Ww mw, by a with another mentioned fesulted Mra Sowart's officers who mads quel Ww ipliow and in the Eres Stewarts mserve accord] which who has she had ais0 bowen i PHIE quarree attachment of The were 8 of ived a es from she sald, "und | ormalioa 5 the 3 was did ® ul} a my send I mad ¥ TREN nid fe Di farted 0 leave advised by the olf 3 he thie Zhan sald Mm Blowart and sh ecenpiod town I thought Sha wand guarseberd my have oauuarrel up then and rowrirdt a d har lavish fre PREl bv tor ag Ma Mar oath, fortano, and uPpan KOYDns of atta hi - y PESO lY for woman and in From learned soaroe it is timation of the Mee e through i= alleged iB-eottc be? beer the impending scandal in of the loc a Chicago had spoils, and shut off At first th ia 0 i wom Was t edited, and Molvill ¢ 1 of the board of d that it was almost impossibl for him to be that there could be amytid with Warriner for several notwithstanding a hasty ex by some of the high the company had the first facts of Cam who $ im * in (841 he COS J REAR tement £ & ur, declare the lieve ing wrong amination made er officials of brought to light the shortage. At present the questions that is the railroad officials is i What became of the $643. 000 which Warriner admits having stolen? The Puke And Miss — Rome (Special).——All soris i stories are afloat about the Duke of | the Abruzzi and Miss Katherine E) kins, of West Viginia With equal positiveness it ia stated that they will marry soon, that their engage that they nover were latest story comes Duke's home. The Superga Oafthedra responsible for the statement that the Duke told hin that all recent romors are fiction that he and Miss F haw beer parted definitely and finally and that the wedding will never occur o! engaged, The from Turin, the perfect of the there is made Burned In His Noms. Ithaca, N. Y. (Special). John H ifects of inhaling flame and smoke at a fire which destroyed his home. his daughter, is in a eritical the shock the City of Rochester, N. Y., from apoplexy. President Taft approved the joint Army and Navy board's recommenda- tion for a naval station at Pearl Har- bor in the Philippines Judge Alfred Coxe, an nephew of | the iste Senator Conkling, is a cy. Completing his 13,000-miie jour-! ‘gent when the fire started The came home about 10 o'clock at aight and as the old man opened the kileh- en door a sheet of flames burst forth, The old man was fatally burmod New Japancse Ambassador, Washington, D. C. (Special).- | Baron Yasuya Uchida has jost buen ‘formally appointed by the Iwmperor | President Taft arrived at o'clock from Richmond, Va greeted at the Union Station by the members of the Cabinet and a large He was driven the President's automobile. The Glaviz charges were brought to the attention of President Taft by Becretary Ballinger, William C. Dennis has been des- fgnated agent of the United States to conduct the case of the Orinoco Steamship Company against Vene- ruela before the international tri- bunal at The Hague. is working ou Secretary Meyer he Tels OF rr Than ras gut organization of the Navy. President Taft will likely fill sev. before eral important vacancies the succcoding Baron iin Tokio on leave of absence The State Department received a oable- gram from United States Ambas sador O'Brien, at Tokio, annouacing the appointment. Bays Minors Want More, Pittsburg (8pecial) Thomas 1. Workers of America, indicated 1h au interview here that the miners vin make a siand for higher the spring. Mr. Lowia deol 8 n work at the mines is improving and bound to continue co. He also ex pressed his confidence of re-clestion
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