is
5
bouse were Immediately filled with
smoke. In the rooms on the up-
per Soor were twenty-seven students
all of whom were taken unawares.
It was not possible for the students
H
Carnell Universally Has Disastréns
Fire Early in Merning, the Cause of
Which May Never Be Known, aa
Famous Structure om Campus, Onee
Kaown as MeGraw-Finke Mansion,
fa New a Rufe-Thirty Students In
Frateralty Demiefle Awakened te
Find a Nearing Farasce Upder
Them—Many Dosds of Hevelam Ree
lated of Rescue Work — Firemen
Crashed t¢ Death by Falling Walls.
ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. 8 Seven ives
were lost In a fire that destroyed thi
chapter Jodge of the Chl Psl fraternity
at Cornell ugiversity. The buiftiing,
which was a famous structure, was
for many years known as the McGraw-
Fiske wansion. €
There were thirty Cornell =
wind at the time was blowing thicty
miles an hour and weatel a draft
through the ballding that soon made
the Interior a mass of flames.
No alarm was turned in until half
an hour after the fire had been discov-
ered, and it was half an hour later be-
fore the volunteer fire department
could get to work. There was a long
climb from the lower part of the city
to the college grounds, and by the time
the firemen arrived the Interior of the
building was almost burned out. They
could do nothing but prevent the ad-
Joining buildings from taking fre.
Rumsey, Exndon and Robinson, the
Ithaca® volunteer firemen, had’ man-
aged to train a hose on the north ‘side
of thé house when the wall lettered.
There was a cry of alarm, and severs!
men standing pear managed to get out
of the way, but the three named were
caught under the mass of debris and
killed
Among those who were taken from
the ruins was J. M. McCutcheon of
Pittsburg, the football fullback substi-
tute, who died of his Injuries.. Those
taken out were in a pitiable copdition,
They were bleeding from cuts caused
by (alliug bricks and timbers amd
blackened by swoke. Those who bad
been caught were roasted in savers)
instances,
0. J. Pope of East Orange, N. J, It
Is feared, will not long survive. He
Frederick W. Grelle of East Orange, | was removed to the city hospital after
N. J. student; burned to death; body | having been badly burned, and his
F condition bax pot perceptibly improv-
Oliver Le Roy Schmuck of Hanover, | ed.
Pa, student; died in the Cornell in- | The bodies of the dead, with the ex-
@rmary of Wurns and other injurits. ception of those of W, H. Nichols of
‘| James McCutcheon of Pittsburg, stu- | Chicago and F. W. Grelle of East Or.
dent; died In Cornell Infirmary of In- | ange, were recovered. Ii has been de-
juries. cided to dynamite the ruins to facili
Esty J. Landon, forty-five years old, | tate the search for the missing bodies,
foremin of the Empire State House | The university Is paralyzed by the
Furnishing company of Ituacs, mem- | catastrophe. ft fs the most (errible
ber of volutiteer fire department; | disaster in its losd of life that has ever
¢rushed by falling wall taken place at Cornell, though at the
Alfred OC. Robluson, thirty years old, | Delta Chi chapter house fire several
attorney of Ithaca, member of volun- | years ago Some lives were Jost.
teer fire department; crushed by fall- | The Lurged bullding hes a romantic
ing wall. history. It was bullt by Mrs. Jennie
John Rumsey, twsaly-seven years | McGraw-Fiske, the benefactor of Car
old, sou. of Charles J. Rumsey, hard- | nell, whose will was contested hy her
ware merchant of Ithaca, member of | husband, Professor Willard Fiske, In
volunteer fire department; crushed by [8 celebrated series of suits. Mrs
falling wall. Fiske died abroad seeking help for an
The following students were Injured: | incurable disea¥e and ueyer entered
Henry Milo Curry of Pittsburg, seri- | her beautiful mansion allve. By the
ously burned: In the Cornell Infirmary. | Irony of fate her only moments In the
Weiner Goets of Milwaukee, Wis; | bullding were as a lifeless corpse nt
the Ithaca City hospital; suffering | Ber own obsequies. The money loss
serious burns and = broken ankle. | is nearly $200,000, since the original
larence A. Pope of East Orange, | cost of the bullding erected by
N. J; In the Cornell infirmary; pain- | Jennle McGraw Fiske was about $150,
fully burned but will recover. 000 and exteusive Interior decorations
The first man to be aroused was IL | bad been made since the Chi Psi fra-
8 De Camp of New York, who was
sleeping on the third foor. He shont-
ternity bought it. All that is left is
a heap of smoking ruins,
ad to awaken the other men on that
Boor, wich Vy” Told ime" wi filed
with smoke, and then fled to the attic.
He climbed out of aa attic window
and lowered himself to the ground by
ww down the vines and ran to
Wllthe Sigma Kappa Jodge, a short
[distance sWxy, He awakened the men
there by shouting, end one of them ran
fo the nearest fire box #nd sent in an
SF The Ithaca fire department is made
Jup entirely of volunteers and nowt of
% apparatus is stationed at the foot
oS qn the altg of,
burned buollding, which is ou the
edge of the Cornell campus, st the top
hed
bell at the city hall, the
the whistle at the pumping
station the inlet and also by the
ringing of the large bell in the tower.
of the university library.
The burning chapter house roared
like-an-iatstno. The. inner. walls wets
Ngked clean and , the cellings fell
while the walls cracked
:
partment, who were crushed by a fall
ing wall. :
The dead are:
William Holmes Nichols of Chicago,
student; burned to death; body recov-
FIGHT NEAR LA PAZ.
Detachment of Eighth Infantry Ruah-
od hy Bojomen In Philippines.
MANILA, Dec. 8.—Later reports of
the fighting in the island of Leyte on
Dec. § show that Captain Samuel V.
Ham, with a detachment of Cowpa
L of the Bighth lufantry and a force
of coustabnjary “under [joutenant
Ralph Pr Yates, Jr, were rushed by
sixty bolomen four miles from La
Pas, on the Taragoua trall, during the
afternoon of that day. The Pulajanes
bad a few guns, fired a volley and
then made a rush upon the American
force. Five Americans were killed and
nine were wounded. “The enemy lost
thirty men killed, The number of Pula-
Janes wounded and captured is not
known. A defacinnenit Has started’in
pursuit “of the Insurgents. The tele
graph llue between Tachban and lloilo
Is dawp, and no further defalis are ob-
talon! '
The list of the American dead ia as
follows: Sergeant Joseph Clark, died
of & bolo wound; Sergeant James Pro-
ven, killed willi's Yolo; Pritile wi-
liam Dofferin, killed with a bolo: Pri.
rate W. Hadley, gunshot; Private Ed-
ward Keogh gunshot. * wi »
The Americans wonndal Were Liou’
tehant Yates, Corporal Weld, Private
MeHenry, Private Edge and Private
Wakefield, all severely wounded, and
Privates A . Brannan, Herrup,
Holst and Richardson, slightly wonnd-
ed.
Susan BN, Anthonys Od Moms Burned
ADAMS, Mass, Dee. &—-The Susan
B. Anthony louse In this town has
been destroyed by fire. Part of he
house was bullt granifat
| about a hundfgd yutes alge aid part by
fa years fer,
lapsed and the mon were buried
the ruins.
managed fo make his es
se ol! ——_
ran
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EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1906
TWAIN IN FLANNELS]
Dr. Lappenl, Physician te Plas XX.
Had Complication of Diseases.
Congress Committees Laughs
at Olemens’ Satiric Speech.
ROME, Dec. 8-—Dr. Lappeal, physi.
TALKS ;SERIOUSLY OF COPYRICHT,
cian to the pope, is dead. He had beep
seriously ill for some time of cancer
Humeorist Rather Amssed Capitol »
Appeariag In Aley Costume of
of the stomach, and, paeumonia set.
ting in, be could nof, in his weakened
temmer-Sceres Publishers and
Their 111 Gotten Wealth.
condition, withstand Its ravages.
When Dr. Lapponi was sinking the
pope seat him the apostolic benedie
tion, and when the news of the death
of the doctor reaclied the pontiff he
was exceedingly grieved.
y It is reported that before losing con
ASHINGTO % Du. HE dl Jelounaen br, Lappon!, referring te
_ | the pope, said:
cui SAR ete of |e Bat 3 Mr cones, ao
copyright bill, now the subject of Bear. having studied him carefully, I think
ings before the senate and house com. he will live longer than Leo XIII."
mittees on patents The deceased physician was very
Mr. Clemens was aftired fu a sult of popular in Baume in bots elerieal and
anticlerics re 5
et. a iowa Le Dr. Lappon! attained considerable
Hale, chaplain of the senate. Mr. prominence as the physician of the
Clemens commented on the imposs}- late Pope Leo XIII, ax the medical at
bility of understanding the legal tendant of the cardinals when In con
phraseology of the copyright bill and | ©'8¥® 80d as the doctor in attendance
$id he allowed all credit to “the trala. | Po%. the present pope. Plus X, His
ed legislators” who were wrestling treatment of Leo I. was strongly
with it. criticised by Dr. Antonlo Cardarell)
“I am particularly laterested in the | 2I1€r that pontiffs decease.
portion of the measure which concerns | OF Sept. 6 last Dr. Lappont while
my trade,” he continued. “I like that | YISIing a patient In a hospital In
extension from the present limit of the | Rome sald to the man, “Unless compli:
life of copyright from forty-two years
fo the life of the author and Afty years
thereafter. I think that ought fo satis
fy any reasonable author, because it
will take care of his children. Let the
grandchildren take care of themselves.
cations set Jn you will recover Io a
couple of days.” After the doctor had
It will satisfy me because it will ena-
ble me to take care of my daughters.
DEAD AT VATICAN.
gone the patient said to bis purse: “Dr,
Lappeni Is mistaken or he wishes to de
celve we. I will die In & couple of
days, you will die in a mouth, and Dr.
Lapponl will pass away In
months.” The prophecy of the patient
After that I dob't care. I have long | bas been fulfilled. He did die two
been out of the struggle, independent [days later, the nurse died & month
of It and Indifferent to it. later, and Dr. Lapponl expired exact
“It is not objectionable to me,” he |ly three months later,
——— “that all the trades and in-| The doctor related this prophecy to
dustries of the United States ure In the | his friends, including the pope. The
bill-xnd protected by It. I should like | pontiff laughed at it, but Dr. Lapponl,
to have the oyster culture added and | who was a confirmed spiritudlist, re
anything eise that. might need protec: | marked that It was possible for a hu-
tion. I bave no ill feeling. I think It & | man belng to receive inspiration and
Just and righteous measure and should | ynconsclonsly foretell the Tuture
like to yea It pagpsed.”
Mr. Clemens argued that there was BILL PHILLIPS WINS.
really Bo leglstative ground for making =
aly Nmilation o the life of a COPY- | New Orlemus Handicap Captured by
fight. “But” be added, "I understand a 13 to 1 Cholee,
it must have a Mmit, because that 1g NEW ORLEANS Dec. S-With the
required by the constitution of the | moa dried out of the Fale grounds fa
United States, which sets aside that | vorites agalu resumed thelr winnings,
prior constitution we call the deca taking four of the six events. Alr
Jogue. | 2ne decaloguo says 3% Shall | yhip's win in the thind race was only by
no! AWAY from Any man his prop- a head.
erty. 1 will not ule that harsher word. | “ry, feature event was a handicap at
But the laws of England and America seven furlongs, and fourth on the card.
do take away the property from the It brought out some of the best ani-
Author. They all'talk handsomely of mals at the course. Monet, clever over
the literature of the land, then they d right at
turn » 1 to crush and wipe It out a.seven furlong course an 5
of existence.” bome In the sticky going, was the pop
“The expiration of a copyright, be ex. | Vio favorite, but was third. He bad
plained, did not Inare to the benefit of | * §°0d Bld against him, however, and
the public, but to fhe publisher “who | *Peculation was brisk.
lives forever nnd rears families in ar. | A pretty fair set of youngsters went
Buence and enjoys from generation to | '0 the post In the opening event, Gold
generation these ill gotten gains." | Circle ruling favorite at 3 to 5. He
Mr. Clemens added: “My copyrights | ra up ro, his best J hana
roduce to me a great deal more mon- | I¥ (rom Glendoveer, while or We
. than I can spend. However, If [ did | Was * 504 es nner: EN
not bave them I could take care of rst Race—G rcle, first; Glen.
myself. I know half a dozen trades, | doveer, second; Spider Web, third,
and If those ran out | would lavent a | Second Race—Woodsay, first; Oper
half dozen others. But for my daugh aor, second; Happy Jack, third,
ters I hope congress will extend to inl Race. —Alrship, t; Columbia
them the charity which they have | Girl, second; Auditor, third.
falled to get from me, Fourth Race. — Bill Phillips, first;
“You cannot name twenty persons in Mortiboy, second; Monet, third.
the whole United States,” he declared, | Fifth Race. —Knight of Ivanhoe, first;
“who in the past hundred years have | Sir Vagrant, second; Gold Duke, third.
produced books which bave outlived | Sixth Race. — Old Stone, first: La
the copyright ait 2 Cache, second; Sanction, third_
Richard R. wker, vice president,
and Robert Underwood Johnson, sec |
retary of the American Copyright
league, advocated the bill, as did
Thomas Nelsou Page, the author: F.
D. Millet, the artist, and W. A. Living.
ston, representing the Print publishers. |
Pepper and Salt at 40 to 1.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec, 8. —Pep-
per and Salt, a 40 to 1 alot, ran the
first race from a very Lad start in a
fleld of ten and finished first. Blue
Bottle, the favorite, waa two lengths
behind at the finish. Three favorites
were in frout In the other events at
Ascot,
Miss “Thomsen Dead of 01d Age.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8—Born In
1803, when -Thomas. Jefferson was
president of. the United: States, Miss
Ad JThapisap, A bell in the social
world of the nation In the early days
of the last century, Is dead at her
Death was due to
olds came (rom
oue he want prominent families in | and won by a length. Miller also won
Philadelphia. Oue of her brothers was | With Golden Rule In the race,
John R. Thomson, a United States sen. | ——
ator; another was Edward Thomson, a | Ti&ers Wom at Basket Ra
resr admiral In the American navy. {| PRINCETON, N. J. Dee. 8~Princ
She was a first cousin of Mrs. Willian | ton defeated the Fordham college bas.
B. Astor, the grandmother of William | Xo ball team here last night by the
Waldorf and Johu Jacob Aster. At | *Ore of 40 to 17.
her home or out, In winter or summer, | EE as S———" :
she would never appear at diuner un. A ielent au na. A
less she was aftired li evening dress. | Gan 5 ro . a
any ; “i : + + Gardper, who was stage manager of
LAE AN Rievator br Five. | the Hollday .Street theater In is old
FORT WILLIAM, Ont. Dec. 8 | *tock company days, ls dead after a
With the thermometer at 20 degrees | few hours' iliness following a stroke
belqw 3¢tp,a fire broke out bere In the of paralysis, Ho wan sixty-eight
workipg house of the Canadian Pa- | Ye of age. Mr. Gardner was the
“hh % arigluator of the professional super.
Siac eral b. i bale nd vision of amateur. theatricals and hag
ghee Two oR farke In | aided in staging many extensive ama.
rie steel storage
; teur performances all over the country.
tanks adjoining were also destroyed. { He Had charge of the Shakespearean
The elevator, which had a capacity of .
' pantomimes at Cincinnati years ago
3,500,000 busbels, was rebuilt after a and for his work lu that direction was
fice In 1 . The total nas Ie oatl- ! publicly crowned with a wreal
mated at $200,000, { laurel,
Earthguake at San Juls Oblape.
»SAN=LUIS OBISPO: Cal, Dec. 8 |
At 1040 o'clock at night this city ex.
perienced an earthquake which lasted
more than thirty rm sho)
wid “Teobf’ hort a "&ull. Half Wh ta appent hefare the United States ofr
hofir 1AtA Secodd Theo "Wad felt bt | cult court of eastern Missouri at St
was not so pronounced as the first. | Louls on the first Monday of January
The earthquake was also felf at Santa [in the antitrust proceadings instituted
Maria, Gudalups, .Cugacos and Can: hy the government agalust the Stand
~ b ard, Johadd Roskefeller, 11. 1. Rogers
And: seventy-three constituent compa.
of Dles
din fentinee “Killing Dasancer.
! For
1'F NE, In, Dev. 8-John Hol
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Fireball at Oakland.
SAN FRANCIBCQ, Dec, 8—~Jockey
W. Miller bad his first mount at Oak-
land on Fireball In the Geraldine hand-
leap. He rode a clever, skillful race,
saving his horse for the final brush,
a —
Ol Men Will Gather at St, Louts.
PITTSBURG, Dee. S—-Ofticiuid’ &f
fourteen constituent companies of the
Standard Oll campany in
Lhe shock | Pennsylvania have bees subpoenaed
EE et
FREE LABOR BILL.
Congress Puts Limit on Prison
Made Articles.
BAR OUT ALL CARNEGIE SPELLING.
Mr. Runt of Missouri, a ‘Stoncmadon,
(Asks Fer Passage of Workmen's
Measure In Interest of Manas
fagturers as Well ns Artisans.
CWARHINGTON, Dee. 8.LBy a prac
teally unanimous vote the house pass
ed the bOF limiting tHe regulation of
Interstate commerce between the sev
€ral btates in articles manufactured by
convict labor or in any prison or re
formatory
The bill was Introduced by Mr, Hunt
(Mo), « practical stonemason. Under
the Wilson blll, which became a law
iu 1880, convict labor made goods way
£00ds manufactured by “free labor"
and under this federal law a state
could not pass a law that would pre
vent the shipping Into the state prison
which passed abrogates the interstate
Commerce law as at present applied to
convict made goods, thereby affording
to the different states and territories
the right to Inhibit the shipping of con.
vict made goods within the confines of
any state or territory.
Mr. Hunt asked for its passage not
only in the interest of free labor, but
in the interest of the nianufacturers,
He sald it was an atttmpt to curb the
criminal competition of the peniten:
tiary with the free labor of the coun
try
“It Is cruel.” he sald, “to ask the free
labor of this country to maintain its
citizenship, its dignity and its self re
¥pect if it has to walt until the product
of the state prison is sold before the
employer can get a reasonable price
for his heneatly manufactured prod.
oer”
With au appropeldtidh of over $3).
000,000 and a provision barring ‘sim-
plified spelling” fu documeats author.
ized Ly law or ordered by congress, the
legislative, executive and judicial ap
propriation bill for 1908 was reported
to the house by the appropriations
committee and wad made a special or
der for Monday,
The amount carried by the bill Js
$085,942 lesy thin the estimates. The
sppropriation for the current fiscal
Year aggregated $30,168 485,
The ‘appropriation for miscellaneous
expenses for the senate Is cut from
$100,000 to $30,000. The salary of the
secretary to the speaker is Increased
from $3,000 to $4,000,
A Lill was also passed creating a
game preserve In the Olympic moun.
tains, In Washington
The Democrats in the house opposed
the consideration of the bill conferring
United States citizenship upon the in
habitants of Porto Rico.
Presldent Roosevelt told the dele
gates to the national rivers and har.
bors convention who called on him at
the White House that he would con-
sult with the leaders in congress and
expressed the hope that something def.
Inite and effective could be done In the
way of increased appropriations for the
Improvement of the nation's water
Ways. ’
Representative Southwick (N. Y.) In-
troduced a bill increasing the salaries
Many Alds Given to Indians.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—-At the annual
meeting of the National Indian associ
ation held here committees of forty.
three branches widely scattered over
the United States reported, showing
that many activities Bave been carried
gious and material benefit of many
tribes of Indians. ‘The association has
malotaiued library aod hospital de
partments among the Indians, enabled
them by means of loans to bulld them-
doctors and teachers aud succesafully
Introduced several [ndustries among
them. These officers were elected: Mr.
{ A. 8. Quinton, honorary president; Miss
Sybil Carter, president; Miss Anna
genuett, treasurer; John W. Clark.
ary.
EE —————.
foman Shoots Herself.
*. 8—~Ktbhel G, Fer-
Id, cashier for
aud died
her in
| Pitta
PITTSB
(ver, twenty-five
a dermatologist, sho
at the apartments of IN
this city to escape belug ta
detective on a charge of forgery
Ferver came here from Ohlo some tin}
{ago and was known ms one of the
|bandsomest gowued women In the city,
Dr. Span, by whom she was employed,
boarded with ber mother, and when he
accused ber of forging bis name to a
chetk for $1000 she went Info du ad-
Joining room after Span had telephoned
for a detective and shot herself. The
girl died as the detective appeared a
the apartment. .
| Should Be Death Penalty, Says Judge
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 —Peter Polykro-
nua was sentenced to tweaty years ln
stale prison by Judge Rosalsky for sn.
ticing young girls Into his fruit store
at K2 Oliver “street. Judge Rosalsky
said, “I belieYe] with Présideht Rodfe
velt, that death should be the penalty
for crime of this character” Polykro-
nus fell on his knees and besought
mercy. “No, not for you. The beasts
of the field have more decency than
Cubans Do Mener te Patriot.
HAVANA, Dec. 8~The anniversary
of the death of the Cy
Saturday Spe
Underwear
a
be duplica betose buy ©
you would save money.
| ens $100 Lam
50¢ Sani fleece
Men's ad B hexibie
Ladies’ 50c fleece lined
suits 39¢.
Ladies $1.00 wool finish
suits 60c. :
Ladies’ $1.00 Iackawanns
wool suits 70¢. + Sa
Cotton Blankets
| 10-4 grey or white 48¢,
| 10-4 grey or white 58a.
10-4 extra 68¢.
11-4 grey or white 85¢.
11-4 grey or white, extra fi
11-4 extra heavy, $1.25,
12-4 grey or white $1.50. :
12-4 extra heavy $1.75.
Not Fairy Tales But
The above are last season's
ues regardless of the constant
ly t hey wise
nearly two years
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Rave them propesy slept
ave them p :
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promise a far better line than
season, and shall appreciate a ¢
from you
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Silk Waistings, Plaid Waistings
Roman Stripe Silks, China Bilks,
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kerchiefs, Boxed i
Towels, Gloves, Um
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ele, ele.
ne
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New Plaids
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na
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