' V ft . ' -t, .-!i' & S i . V ' i ' f! f " ' r . ".r U uenttt$ public fcoget I NIGHT , i EXTRA '"It- t rr Si JTUVAJSrCIAIj I I ',.! VOL. V. NO. 226 I'.ntercil us Stcond-CliiFS Matter Rt the l'oatomcf, Hi rhlladelrhla.' Ta. Und6r tho Act of March . 1S7P. """'""," PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919 ruliliHu'd lnn l;rpnl Htindnv Xii1r rlpilon Prler in a Year by Mall ( opjrmht UMH M Publlr l.'dicrr I'ompnnj PRICE TWO CENTS SPROUL TO REJECT CHARTER IN ITS PRESENT FORM; 78 MINERS KILLED IN WILKES-BARRE POWDER BLAST I V? 4-ntS. sJ ?$! 5fti ? 1 ' THE WEATHER ' ' Washington, Juno 5. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. TKvn-Bnvnmi; at men iioAiit S 0 10 U 12 I 1 I 2 .t I 4 I ! I 70 72 74 7(l 7H 81 82 B4 I C0UNG1L DF 21 JNSISTEQ1 HI Hlffl J Executive Expected to Veto Re form Measure Unless Amend ments Are Made If REVISIONISTS ARE ACCUSED I nr- hotimo m DAn CAITU ur hoiiihu hi dhu riiu Failure to Adopt Suggestions of Attorney General as to Changes Deplored HOUSE TO ACT MONDAY Administration Not Expected to Take Further Action on Contract Clause fiu a Staff Correspondent Harrlsburg, June 15. Governor Sprout will not sign the Woodward charter bill in its present shape. Word to this effect has gone out from . the Governor's office and is "known by i Tirtually all the influential members of the Senate and House who hnvc talked with the Governor during the last two days. , The Governor and Attorney Genprnl schafler are not only dissatisfied with the present Mntus of the charter meas ure", but they are understood to be s very much displeased with the action of the charter revisionists in forcing certain provisions into the bill and kcep- ff,ulfc VLUClft VUlt J". Ilh. .M. .airialrtni.td ....A knlm. .. ....... 1 ft s.,..s. iciifiuuiau. Hie uunin HVVIIMU ?f bad.failh irf injecting into the Wood ward bill certain amendments which Uwere not expected and in rejecting those proposed by the attorney general. v Opposes Council of Twenty-seven One of the sections Kot the bill which the Governor will not stand for is that increasing the number of members of the proposed single council from twenty -one to twenty-seven. Another is the civil service section, which the charter revisionists refused to amend at the suggestion of the attorney general. The Council section must be re amended to provide for the original proposition of twenty-one councilmen, and the drastic provisions of the civil service section must be modified to ex clude all city employes, except police men and firemen. While the administration leaders do not favor the proposed merger of the jtax receiver's office with that of city treaurcr, they probably will not insist on its elimination. They are decidedly opposed to it, how ever,, but feel it should bo permitted to ,,to stand if the revisionists want to abolish a system by which one office acts as a check on the other and at the same time add to the money handled by the city treasurer, who is said to now -, ,!lanle twice as much as-is handled by the state treasurer. , Tho administration also is hardly (expected to take any further action on the contract clause which prohibits the p'resent City Council from making any I contracts extending beyond July 1 next I year. While they feel the city is not pre- r pared to set up In the rontr.,iin. I business Itself there is a disposition to ij Jet the nevy council work out the prob- Im for Itself. r To Insist on Amendments Governor Sproul, it is definitely un derstood around the capitol, will not only insist that the charter revisionists amend the bill and bring it to the shape tuat virtually was agreed upon at the 'hearing here two weeks ago, but will v?tb the, measure if the changes are ,v not made. & Against his wishes it would be im- $ possible to put the measure through s either branch of the assembly, so that ' attempting to pass it over his veto would I meet' with' flat failure. f Just how the tangle will be straight- IKS eaed out is not known. The bill comes up, for third reading and final passage Jj In the House on a special order Mon day night. Then it goes to the Senate f! for concurrence. , Whether the bill will be amended bv gUte House Monday night sitting as a loumlttee ,of the whole or whether it VtSlll VlM. ..Ilf tA A A(,f Ann nnMM.l,,An ,y,. w oimv tv , kvuiwkc virujumicc lf the Senate Is not known. There is ihj a prooBDincy mm oom nrancnes Wy pass t and then the Governor euld make the changes he wants and CaUMt'a (m'JhU. CUun Tva Situation Today in Charter Controversy What Governor Opposes: Council of twenty -seven members; he insists upon twenty-one ns for merly ngrced. Civil service section of hill. Must be changed to exclude nil city em ployes except policeman and lire men. ' What Revisionists Say,: (Icorge W. Coles, clinirmnn Town Meeting I'arty : "1 can hardly credit the report that the (iovernor has re fused to sign the bill in the present form. The Governor has always been in sympathy with the charter committee to give Philadelphia n well-iounded, workable charter. There has never been nny doubt about the (Iovernor." Thomas Itticlmrn White, charter revi-ion leader: "There is no com ment I can make. I have been away fiom the city and have not been in touch with the situntion." What Senator Varc says: "Nearly every provision of the bill is made up of political spite." "Nearly every provision in the bill means additional taxes on the people." "Those who nie backing it will get all that is coming to them when the voters (list their ballots next fall." 1 SEIZED AS POLICE IN RUNNING FIGHT FOIL CLOTH THEFT Transom Burglars Routed in Act of Removing Goods From Tailoring Sho'p Thieves, after forcing an entrance to a tailoring establishment at Eighth and Heed streets early today, proceeded to load numerous suits anil bolts of cloth on ii delivery truck parked nearby. The police sa it was the object of the thieves tn remove the tailors' stock from the shop to the truck and then drive aw ay. A chose by the police, who fired sev eral revolver shots at the fugitives, re sulted in the arrest of one man mi id to have been Implicated in the at tempted burglary. lie said he was Augclo Denl, twenty-three years old. of Catharine street, above Sixth. At a hearing before Magistrate Itaker. at the Third nud Dickinson streets btation, he was committed to prison without bail to nwait a further hearing on the case next Thursday. The robbery was attempted at 2 o'clock this morning. Patrolmen ling ers and Gnygan saw two men removing the stock of Mnlandora & DelGrosso, who conduct the tniloring shop. An en trance had been gained by climbing over a transom. One man was inside, en gaged in handing the btocl: (o his com panion outside who enrried it to the truck. ARMIES OF KOLCHAK BEATEN, REDS ASSERT 40,000 Prisoners, 100 Gun3 Capturtfd by Soviet Troops, Says Report Copenhagen. June ,". (lly A. P.) The Swedish Socialist newspaper Folkets Dagshlad, which is said to be in close communication with the Rus sian Tlolshevik government, has received n telegram from Pctrograd reporting that the forces of Admiral Kolchak, of the Omsk government, have been' de feated in the south and center, while the northern front is shaking. The soviet troops are snid to have captured 1Q,000 prisoners, 100 guns and much war material. AH! CAN THIS BE PARADISE? It's Cooler and Smiling Weatherman Promises Fairer Elements Cooler ! Yes. by more than n jug full. A liberal breeze combined with a relenting sun did the trick and kept tho mercury many degrees below yester day's mark all day. At J5 o'clock today the temperature was 84 degrees, as compared with 01 at tho same hour yesterday. Of course, there lire still many more hours left, but the wentherman believes that toduy will not become famous for hot spots. There was a'humidity of 78 per cent. But no one seemed to care, ns few knewthut nny was hanging around. Humors are circulated at Ninth nnd Chestnut streets that the' mercury will not reach yesterday's high peak today ; at least, not this afternoon. Incidentally fair weather is promised lu fact, nlmost guaranteed by the weatherman for tonight, Today's Temperature Compared With Yesterday i " Yesterday Hour Today 74 8 70 70 ft ,.72 80 ......... 10 74 84 11 70 80 12 78 M) ' 1 bO S!) 2 , 80 80 , 1 ,.. 81 PI) ? 6. ' L.-' & , TTfe TAFT AND DAUGHTER AT BRYN MAWR 7" 2?ilH T' sppH iWlMnllraiiii h lilPrKilBH i BHI ft t " i IB 'iiiiiHiiHiiiiiiiiiBirV ' .fliiiEMfliiHHPflillHt. n- iiiiliV IBM' , plnB&i a: 'i'm-& Former President William Howard Tnft ilclicred tlie commencement address at Itryn Mawr College today, his daughter. Miss Helen II. Taft, will bo acting president of Ilryn Mawr during the absence of Dr. M. Carey Thomas ENEMY W. L TREATYAYS TAFT Ex-President Tells Bryn Mawr Girls He Expects U. S. to Approve League FAVORS SUFFRAGE BILL "I do not doubt that the great ma jority of people of the I'nited States nnd the needed majority nf the senators of the I'nited States will approve the league of nations." Kormer President Taft in making this statement today in his ndi'rcss to the graduates nt Brjn Mawr College, emphasized thy need nf making the world safe against future wars. Earlier in the day Mr. Taft in au interview declared that in all probabil ity the (Jermnns would sign the treaty of peace, but pointed out that he would not be surprised if Allies were com pelled to use force in making the Ger mans carry out certain provisions of the pact. "I see they are considering modify ing the trenty," he continued; "no doubt there are necessary qualifications because of the difficulty found In the execution and performance of stipula tions. "As to the protest nf Senator Lodge concerning the text of the treaty," and here the former President smiled broadly, "I doubt If any senator would read the entire 80 ,000 words of the text it he had them. No. I haven't seen the treaty, but I read about 10,000 words of it in tlie Kvkmnii Prm.ir I.kixikii," When asked If he thought Germany should be admitted to the league of nations immediately, Mr. Taft shook his head, "I would hesitate," he said, "to admit Germany till such time as she is a little more repentant." Sajs Daughter Will .Make Good Sitting in the living room of his daughter's homo in Hryn Mawr, the former President commented on the re cent appointment of Miss Helen II. Tnft ns acting president of Hryn Mawr Col lege during the next year. "She is very young,, of course," he snid, "but she seems to have poise, and I thiuk she will .do a good job." When asked about the passage of the suffrage nmendment the statesmnn s'.iid he had been convinced for some time Contlnu,! on Pue Two, Clotimn Four PARK COMMISSION SAFE Attorney General Won't Send 'Em to Jail "The Knirmount Park Commissioners will not be prosecuted by Attorney Gen eral Sehnflcr for permitting sports on Sunday in the park. The Itcv. T. T. Mutchler, of the Lord's Day Alliance, asked the state to take legal action against the Park Com missioners, but the attorney- general declined to do so, ruling It wns purely a local matter. "Mr. Mntcliler nnd a lawyer visited me and asked that the state take action against the Park Commissioners for permitting Sunday sports lu the Phila delphia parks," s.aldthe attorney gen eral today. "I told them the state would not in terfere in aiiyrnctIou taken by (he Park SIGN Tsr: T IE BOMBS USED JY PLiHS HERE Girl Found Wooden Box Shortly Before Explosions, Father Says ARMY AIDS INVESTIGATORS Time bombs and not instruments nf contact construction weie used hy the terrorists in their operations in this city Mondaj night. This was tho belief expressed today by government invcsfigatois. Tlie ex plosives ore believed tn have been en cased in wooden boxes, which, in ex ploding, were destroyed. This, it wns explained, is the reason that no pieces of the materials used in constructing the deadly instruments have been found. Two women, a mnn and a child, resi dents of West Philadelphia, have been located by the authorities to whom they have declared that they carelessly exam ined "a woden box" they found less than twenty minutes before an explo sion wricked the home of Louis .fa jiecky. a jeweler, of 241 Smith Kift scventh street. The other bombing in this city Monday acctirred at the rectory of the Catnollc Church of Our Lady of Victory, at Fifty-fourth and Pine streets Directed to New York The office of the Department nf .Jus tice in this city is represented among the cosmopolitan squad of imestigotors in New York today. It is theie that the probe to locate the hendquarters of the band terrorists is now directed. The bomb outrages that occurred in seven . eastern cities nt Virtually the same hour Monda) are all believed to have been directed from New York. The Philadelphia investigators in New York may be able to determine the fact that the liombs exploded iu the other cities were nf the same construction as those used here. At 10 o'clock on Monday night, Mny Hammond, the seven- ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivlwnnl llammonil, TiTMl Snruce street noticeil a large wooden box on the curbing in front of Continued on Pair r.Uht, Column One WOULD CURB PACKERS Colver Says Meat Trust Is Getting Control of'Other Foods Cincinnati, June .".William II. Colver, chairman of the Pedernl Trade Commission, in speaking before the Na tional Wholesale Grocers' Association convention here today, ndvocuted that great, meat packers of the country be limited to meat packing and to the manufacture of packing house by products, "The commission has found that meat trust exists," said Mr. Colver. "Ilut It has found more than that. It finds that -these great concerns nre rapidly extending their dominion and control over the whole food supply of the nation, and I believe it is only a matter of time, unless prese'nt tendencies are stopped, when these five concern, or perhaps one or two of them which may, openly or secretly, nbsorb the others, will absolutely dictate tp the peoplp of this country, what they shall eat and PROBE OF "LEAK" OF TREATY URGED E Hitchcock Resolution Followed Conference Between Nebras- kan and Tumulty HOT TALK ON THE FLOOR a" s Ex-Chairman of Foreign Rel tions Committee Denounces Charge Against President l!j the Associated Press WashiiiRtou. June .". The leak 'diplomatic iliiinnels. tlunugh which . . , , . p .i ,,.i, has heen ehargeil, copies of Ihe unpnh- lished peine trelfty with (iermnnv reached eeitain interests in New Vmk, I brought about another vioimv debate todaj 111 the Sennte. Todnj it was tated aiithm itntixelv, ill im r t., llie .issemhlitii' nf tlie SeillltC punr ,. the assembling of the Senate. mill M-natnr iiiiciicock iniroimeri. ...s iCMiliitmn pinvidiug for an iivestiga-( lion nf the alleged "leak." at a lequcst finni ihe White House, after n i (infer ence wilh Secretary Imniiltv President Wilson is being advised nf the situation in the Senate, but s(, far as has been made, known, he h.is not indicated whether he would authorize tlie State Department to fuiiiish the tieat.v text in the Senate in the event of the passage of Senator Johnson's lesnlution calling for its pioduition. Calls Charge "Monstrous" Hitchcock, in calling up his resolu tion for a Senate investigation of all facts in the case, declared the state ments of Senators Lodge, nf Massachu setts, and Itnnili, nf Idaho, Itepublican members of the committee, rrgarding the presence nf copies iu New rk. constituted a "innnMruusj charge." If this charge had been liiade in the in terests of tlie public, be said, and not 'merely In order to attack the treat), the senators making it would have de manded senatorial investigation. The speech drew replies from both Mr. Lodge and Mr. Borah. "1 piesnine." said Mr. Hitchcock, "Mini there will be nn substantial nh- iection to this proposal. It is a mat- ! ter of (he most tremendous urgency thnt investigation hould be had of i barges liiade upon the responsibility nf two senatois that copies of tlie treaty have fallen into the hnnds of New York interests, while being withheld from the Senate of the United States. "The icquest for this investigation should have been made by Ihe senatnis who lugged in the Senate this serious BY WH IE HOUS charge. They do not appear to real- i.e the embarrassing position in which' thev pi d themselves by not askiug an 'Army Officer Lured Into Machine investigation ttack On Treaty A de, laiation by tlie Nebraska senator that Senators Lodge and Hnrali bad "insinuated broadly that the President permitted copies to go to business con cerns in New York city," brought Mr. Lodge at once to. his feet. "1 said nothing whatever about finan cial inteiests," asserted the Massachu setts senator. "It is possible," replied Mr. Hitch cock, "that there may be some difference between the positions of Ihe two sena tors iu that respect. Tlie.v cnuciiried, however. In their attack." "This charge involves an attack on the President of the United States of the most scandalous nature. It appears, tn be n new chapter In the attack on the treaty itself. It is a monstrous charge .Men who moke such n charge owe it to the public to demand investi gation and they would have demanded investigation if they bad been making it in tlie public interest nnd not for the purpose of hurting the treaty." Senator Hitchcock declared that if New York Interests had trenty copies, they "apparently nre in closer commu nication with enemies of the treaty than with friends of the treaty." "Held Stolen Goods," Says Hitchcock "If he held the treaty in his hands," shouted Senator Hitchcock, referring to Senator Lodge's statement as made in the Senate, "he held stolen goods; goods probably secured by bribery; goods 'which the American representatives in Paris piomised not to make public. It Is a strong statement for a senator of the 1'nitcd States to make that the Continued on Van Two, Cloumn Tour New Color Supplement of the Public Ledger So new arid different that it can be compared with no supplement ever issued by n newspaper! Color pure true every page glowing with it in designs afford ing tho best painters and illus trators full scope for higher achievement, Really a weekly feast of color for all the family rtCut-Outs" and Fniry Stories for tho Kiddies full-color paintings for grown ups humorous color pages with an entirely novel, artistic quality a new and sure delight for nvAfV Sundavl And vmt rnn n. joy the first Jsbue on Sunday, JUIlKOi . . i Foch Gives Aid to Rhine i Republic, Say Germans "Teuton Government Will Never Have Any thing to Do With Left Bank of River," He Is Quoted Ity the Associated Press The projei t was then, it was said. Mannheim. June ."". When the pin- taki'ii up with Mnrslnit 1'och and Prc- jei t f the Ithenisli i ipulilii- was first mier Cleini'iu-enii. Marshal Koch is quot hiiMclieil, .laishnl Koch, rninmiiiider- rl ll" " ing. In addition : In-i-hief of the nllied ai mies.- as ap "The population "f the left bank of in imi-I,iI Hii-mii-i, ,,,.,;,,,, n;, ... i iiikI iisKnl whether the Khlneliinilers ' '''' 4 Oil 111 Wills Ttir ! I fruililii. uitlimil tin. I lM rl-k .,f lR disri,,lie,l In Crrmnm . ' n.. - ,. - , ,l,e NVe l!den l.d,ei tung Th,. ,ir.p.i.e. Mat.- th.it Mar shiil I i" h mid Pieiniei Cleinencenii of " "nllfeiled mi Ihe siilijeel II 11(1 Kin sen! leplj lii (lie Itliiiiehiuders that I lie Iti'iin.in Cmctnmi'iit would ueei ngnili haie .in.Mhiiig in ,1,, with tlie left in bank nf the Ilhine. and hence the pinp.i jt giiinlNts iniild not he punished." 1 1.11. I.! .1 e. l .,... " "i'iisiiinK uiese ni is i e news- ,,,., p (,f ( ,.,,..,,. ,,,,,, r Uii liter ami Men- llofiniinn. Centrist nienibeis nf Ihe Nntinnal Assembl) . with '" "erai uerniii. in nie i rencli iirni, nil 'March . It is snnl t It n t Cenernl (!er!iul '. In, ,,t ,. ,.(1,P f t. unine pnnime were ntci v lielmingU in finni . t . . . . if ail lllllcpclll cnl slate. Illll IM C 1- . bmul I of tMf fpllr flf ,lr (iPrnlllI1 ,i,Prmm,nt PENROSE IS SILENT ON CHARTER REPORT Senator Penrose declined comment when he wan told In Washington this afternoon of the report that Governor Sproul would not fight the Woodward Charter bills in their present form. "I will be in Philadelphia Saturday," the Senator said. "I'll have something to say then. Meanwhile, see John C Winston." 12-000 TROOPS LEAVE BREST ON LEVIATHAN BREST, June 5. The American transport Leviathan sailed from Brest today with 12,000 troops, including officers and men of the sixth division, Brigadier General James W. McAndrew and Brigadier. General W. R. Dashiell. ADDITIONAL RACING RESULTS First Belmont race, 4 1-2 furlongE Betsinda, 113, Walls, 1 to 2, out, out, won; Balloting, 112, Metcalf, 12 to 1, 4 to I, 2 to 1, secontlT'Dame, 107, Kelsey, 6 to 1, 6 to 5, 3 to" 5, third. Time, .54 1-5. B T and Blackjacked $200 k Taken by Three Men LEFT UNCONSCIOUS IN CAR Tbiee motor bandits lured Major 11. II Mclll'ide. nf the I nited States Medical Corps, into an automobile, and nffer beating him with black jacks robbed him nf S'.'dO and jewelry. Major Mcltride was left unconscious in tlie automobile near llrond and Tioga streets last night. He lives at 2111 Spruce street. He was found' unconscious this morning in tlie abandoned automobile by Patrolmen Cmss and Stump, of the ISirk and Lehigh avenue station. They saw the car standing near the curb and fniinil Mninr Mcllride covered with blond. Major Mcllride was removed ipihkly to the Samaritan Hospital, while the police sinured the neighborhood fnr bis nssuUauts. .The found (lustave Cusniio, Lighth nnd Catharine strets, who. is is said, drive the car, nnd arrested him. Through Information given by Cusano. It is said, John Curriin and John Dniigheity vvlm gave their ad dresses as Sixteenth and Porter slieets, were .iliested. Cusano mid he did not know the men mid picked them and Mujoi Mcllride up in a small hotel at Ilinad and Locust streets. The. third man who wns with them escaped. ' All the prisoners were held without bail for court by Magistrate Carson. j Major McBride recovered sufficiently ' today to attend the hearing. He was Istill'in n somewhat dazed condition ns i a result of his injuries. Major Mcllride said he met three men near llrond nnd Locust streets and en tered nn automobile with them nt their request. Previously he had cashed n check for $-'00 at the Girnrd National Hank. Major .MCliriue aiso nan a gold watch and n gold cigarette case. These were also missing. "After serving siiteen months in France and dodging shells and bullets," he said, "it's pretty hard lines to re turn and be Injured by bandits." The prisoners had nothing to sny. The police sny they will nrrest the third .ine.yib,er .of the tiio before night- AUTO Ai AND A I LftH. t uif Ulnne mnj sav ami tiunK wniu n . hut the rstalilishment of one. and ililv several independent states, is ,n!:) 'Mllp- n,"L n,'.,"r,',1i "ITx ,1 ' ""' 1"; ',,;r'" '"" ' " ''." i " ' 'V '' " . s,,jr.. n,M,nl ""' Ml '"" f "'P Ithiue.' Iterliu. .lime -ll'.y A. P. I A pinelaiuatinn h Cenrral Mnngiii. com- nil ndei nf the Krench army of ncciipa I Kin at Mnyenee. forbidding strikes against the Hhenih lepublle and tlirea lining leaders of nni such moveinents with expulsion, is published in the Krnnkfort Unzettc I'hc Ilhineliinders haie been discuss ing tlie interests nf their fatherland for me iiisl si iminins wmintii nisiurinni; public order, Ihe proclamation sajs, "but nnw Ihe (ieruiau Gm eminent .i . .1.-... ..:.!. : iiiiilii'iis im in ,iim iiiiiii isuuiiirui. , ,.,, . , . ... .,, . ., I hey have irentid a republic , thin the! Cnnlimieil on Vac Tight, Column setfn Austrian Grand Council Adopts Report Declaring Terms Spell Republic's Doom TEUTONS IN CONFERENCE Ity the Associated Press Basel, June .". The (irnnd Council of (ieimnii-Austrin, which met under the chairmanship of President Scitz, adopted the report nf Dr. Otto Iiauer, the gist nf which was that the pence terms presented tn Ccrinnn-Austrin by the Allies meant "the death sentence nf VIENNA GALLS PACT DEATH N the Austrian republic," according to nf their labors crowded into mine cars Vienna advices icceived here. ,,. n by motor. The rear car car- Newsp-ipers of Vienna, including the ,ied twelve kegs of powder. The mlnu Arbiter Zeituiig, the Socialist organ. I ia mmiern and equipped electrically, echo this sent .ment with various degrees Thp tro0J wirp maplKa wnen the of vehemence. Some darkly hint thatltrnin had gone about 200 feet from the the Inst o,d has nnt been spoken." ! PDtram,e. The wire sputtered and I resulent Keitz. Foreign Minister fe,,C(1 aml ,), parkR it ,mitted touched Bauer and Vice President Fink haveorf ,,, pmu,P1.. The terrified men were left lenua for Feldkirch to confer with parnhMI, by realization of their dan- Karl Itenner, the Austrian chancellor pr and bend of the Austrian peace mission ' ,,' i i , . ' ' '""' I There was n roar nnd in nn instant Vienna. June n. R, a. TMThJ "cry "'an nml boJ "" the trnin was cabinet was culled into session T.in " .--'..,, night and spent the entire night in ills- cussing the terms of the peace treaty which arrived fiom St. (jermnin. The news filtered through the city, hut it made scarcely any impression on the people. The newspapers today scarcely comment on the ticnty. Kdi tor Beuedik. nf the Neue Freie Pressc. I recited the news at his country home shortly after it arrived in Vienna, but did not come iuto the capital to write on the subject. The editor of the Ar beiter Zeitung, however, wrote nn edi torial on the treaty, nud then went to bed at midnight, us is his custom. Say Might Rules Peace The peace offered Austria is gener ally regarded as based on might, nnd tnot on President Wilsou's fourteen point.!. In some quarters it is consid ered a trouble breeder for the future,-) I'd. ttviiiuti j an ii-homs luc virnnun populations given oyer to the Czechs, Tuesday afternoon's newspapers will make a show of protecting along these lines, but Austria seemingly is really interested, ns President Seitz has point ed out, in linaucinl aid which will make it possible for Austria to exist. Official notice of the news was taken by a sitting of the ministry in the great council room of the foreign affairs of- CoaUflvitd on rate Eltht. CohHea ..Ht 11 IN T OFflKIEITS T Violation of Law by Carrying Powder on Train With Men Is Cause BROKEN TROLLEY WIRE IGNITES POWDER KEGS Fire and Smoke Increase Havotj and Many Bodies Brought Out in Flames FEW ARE RECOGNIZABLE" Dead Cover Colliery LaWll &3 " Frantic Relatives Search for Loved Ones Toll of Mine Disasters in Ten Years 30,000 Men Statistics show that more than .".0.000 men have lost their lives in mining disasters throughout the world in the last ten years, and many thousands more have been injured. Among the most serious disasters of this iinturc in Pennsylvania have been the following: Year Ta(j IBRD Urnzncll 30 1S!)1 Yoiingwond 186 lAO'J Johnstown .-113 iriO-l Harwich 18!) 100-1 dies wick 182 1007 Monongah 360 1007 Jacobs Creek 230 , IflOS Marianna ,.. 1R4 1011 Scranton 73 1!)1J Finleyville 200 10P.I Wilkes-Harre 78 Willies -Barro. Pa., June 5. Seventy-eight men were killed and at least forty others were injured early today when blasting powder being tnken into Baltimore mine No. 2 of the Delaware; and Hudson Coal Company, near here, mn the same train carrying miners-to their work exploded in th"e tunnel. With one exception, the disaster 14 'the worst thnt has ever occurred in this! 'vicinity. v J i Forty -one bodies of the victims had 'been identified this afternoon. The com- pany's list of the injured was not com- plete, but officials were certain there "Pr; ,,NO rorp mpn llllrt b? " imcskiii or niirneu uy ine names tnac t Mi K followed. Carelessness and violation of mine t laws of the state, it is believed, caused - the disaster. One of the most f drastic provisions of the anthracite $ mine code is the section forbidding the i transportation of men on a enr or train which carries explosives. Investigation will disclose whether the men or the company is responsible for violation of the law. ' Mrn Paralyzed With Terror The mineis were riding to the seen ' cither dead or dying. Terribly mangled bodies were burred in every direction. Itescue crews instntly rushed into the mine. Fire fighters, working frnn tically, succeeded in an incredibly short time in subduing the flames which followed the blast. Then came the gruesome work of tak ing out the dead nnd injured. Those who ha'l not already succumbed were ifta so badly burned that in nearly everyvf case uviiwi scvuivu a mmicr- ui oni, a short time l'mployes of the company said after,? the disaster that there is an intake ,ofA?;,f Jtu,wi ciiuic air per minute an up!. ..-. -;i-. j tunnel. When the powder ignited tbAp t! intake picked up the flames, carried! them over the heads of the men, burrt" -; ing their clothes from their bodies an4 sr - scaring jtheir ilesh, Aloug the s!de'C - the tunnel run small streams, and lnfc,"tf' these somq of the men fell. 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