VOL. XVI. NO. 1 BANGOR, ME.. SWEPIBYSFIRE One-Third of City Burned by $3,000,000 Blaze. ONLY TWO LIVES ARE LOST > .1 .One Hundred Business Buildings, 275 Residences and Seven Churches Were Destroyed. The fire which ravaged the business and residential section of Bangor, Me., destroyed more than one-third of the city, entailing the loss of two lives and a property loss of $3,000,000. Those who lost their lives were John N. Scribner, an aged cobbler, who was crushed to death by a falling wall, and George Abbott, a fireman, who was killed by a toppling chim ney. One hundred business buildings, 50 per cent of them small wooden stores and shops; 275 residences and seven churches were destroyed. A summarization of the principal buildings destroyed, the value of ■which is estimated at about $5,000,000 and stock furnishings were worth about $1,000,000 more, includes, be sides the seven churches, the busi ness blocks on Exchange street, from York street to East Market square, and on State street, from the Merritt Trust company building and T. White's to Broadway; Park street, its entire length, and a large section of Coneral and Franklin streets; the residential portion of the city on thp west side of Broadway, between State street and South Park; between the same limits on French street, and from Harlow street to the east side of Broadway, between State and South Park. Electric lights are out of commis sion and trolley cars are completely stopped for lack of power. There are several million dollars' worth of securities in the safety de posit vaults of the various banks that have been burned, and sentries with loaded rifles are on guard. Although the city hall has not yet saugfit fire, thirteen prisoners who were in cells at the police station have been released by order of the mayor. The entire city was panic-stricken. Men, women and children early began to flee from the scene. Many tried to carry their household effects out of the fire, but it was impossible to se cure wagon for this purpose, and so wheelbarrows and baby carriages were pressed into service.lnto these were hastily packed what valuables could be thought of in moments when the bravest would have been at their wit's end, and on every hand could be seen these people making their way into the open country to safety. The firemen were absolutely help less before the conflagration. Widen ing out on both sides, Mayor Mullen saw that only a miracle could save the business section of Bangor, and he ordered the chief of the depart ment to use dynamite. Men accus tomed to using the explosive in tim bering operations were pressed into service. They placed large quantities of dynamite in several building oppo site the postoffice and blew them into small debris, but the roaring element was not to be stayed by such meas ures. Jumping over newly-made spaces, the flames seized upon other prey. Five Drown When River Scow Upsets Three men and two boys were drowned in the St. John river near Edmundston, N. B. They were cross ing the river from the American to the Canadian bank in a ferry scow op erated by a wire cable. The cable broke and the scow was mjset. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESYILLE,! IF ,A_. CAPITAL STOCK j $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Front/, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reecier, Jacob Per, - .... Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflQdiv.il- j. A . s . M| Jl)hn uals and Firms solicited. 1 Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Republican News Item. CITY HALL, BANGOR. Or.e of the Buildings to Escape i the Flames. » ••*■«<»*->• -« HURT DOING CIRCUS STUNT Boy Rides Through the Air Instead of on Horse. Circus posters on his barn, showing daring feats of horsemanship, so en thused Sumner Elliet, of near Beverly, N. J., with the desire to imitate some of the stunts. Elliet leaped astride a horse and tried to make it vault a fence and walk on its hind hoofs. The animal rebelled and Elliet lashed it. The revengefully sought a favorable posi tion on Elliot's body when he turned his back and lifted both its hind feot. The aim was accurate. Elliet was hurled a distance of over twenty-five feet thorugh the barn doar. He was picked up unconscious, badly bruised and with two ribs broken. Opera by Yale Men Wins SIO,OOO Prize "Mona," an opera in English, the work of Horatio Parker, who is pro fessor of music at Yale, and Bryan Hooker, of Farmington, Conn., for merly of the Yale faculty, has been awarded the SIO,OOO prize in the Met ropolitan "opera contest. The decision flf the iury, which was unanimous, was announced and, pursuant to the terms of the contest, the opera will bo uroduced by the Metropolitan Op era company next season. Grief-Stricken at Death of Secretary. Senator Cullom, of Illinois, is grief stricken at the death of his secre tary, William Martin Malloy. Ma'.loy died suddenly in the arms of his roommate of gastritis. Malloy was long secretary to the foreign relations committee, a clubman and author of several books on international affairs. Senator Cullom loved him as a son. TRAIN KILLS THREE Boys Stepp:d In Front of Express Train to Avoid Freight. Three boys, each about fifteen years old, were run down and killed at Devil's Bend, near Greensburg, Pa., by an eastbound Pennsylvania railroad express train. The boys were returning to their homes in Westmoreland City from Jeannette, where they were employed in the bottle factory. The dead were Isaac Cook, Charles liackley and Usher Hall. As the boys reached the bend in the road they stepped from the westbound track to permit a westbound freight to pass. As they stepped on the east bound track they were run down by the eastbound express No. 94. Auto Scares Fine Mare to Death. A valuable mare owned by the Phil adelphia Electric company became frightened at a passing automobile In Chester, Pa., jumped into the air and fell (le:ul tn die «treet from shock. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911. CHINESE REBELS j TAKE FIVE TOWNS Hall of Kwangtnng Province Given Over tn Anarchy. DEAD LIE IN CITY STREETS Canton Highways Are Red With Blood and Hundreds Have Been Slain. Troops Are Powerless. Rebellion, brigandage and anarchy are laying waste the western half of the province of Kwang Tung, China. The tioops loyal to the government arc fighting desperately to crush the up rising, the seriousness of which is re vealed in further dispatches from Canton. Five towns have fallen before the rebels and have been pillaged. Wu Sum, who has adopted the dress of western countries, is the leader of the revolt against the Manchu dynas ty. The brigand chief, l-uk, of Shun- I talc, is at the head of a horde of out laws, whose object Is robbery and murder. Following the standards of these two men are anarchist groups, to whose purpose the present outbreak lends itself most advantageously. These combined forces have thrown themselves with fanatical disregard of their own lives against the troops, and since the first outbreak Thursday night much blood has been shed. Se dition is life among certain of the troops, and it is feared that the dis affected soldiers will desert their offi cers if the revolters appear to have the upper hand. Official advices and the refugees ar riving from Canton confirm the sinis ter reports. Dodies of the slain lie in the streets of the city. Famine prices are asked for foodstuffs, and the shops generally are closed. In the panic there have been few attempts to bury the dead. The revolters have withdrawn to a great extent from Canton and arc de vastating the country to the west along the West river. Before falling back they fought the troops from street to street, many persons being killed. They attacked the provisional arsenal and, being repulsed, gathered in an immense rice store, which they barricaded with bags of rice. From the building they threw bombs into the attacking troops and were only d:s lodged when the building was set on fire. Many of the revolters escaped, but thirty or more died in the flames, while others killed themselves to avoid capture. While the fighting was progressing in the streets, Chinese gunboats pa trolling the West river fired into sev eral parties of rebels, slaughtering 200 of them. Retreating to the country side the revolutionaries attacked and captured Sam Shui, thirty miles west of Canton, and murdered the prefect The troops were put to flight and the rebels moved onto Wen Chow and Woo Chow, both of which towns they took after slight resistance. Luk'S bri gands, following in their wake, loote ! the shops of the three towns The triumphant sweep of the revo-' lutionaries continued westward along the West river, and reports from that district say that the movement If spreading and that the revolutionaries are murdering and pillaging in othei places. The revolutionists are cutting the telegraph wires throughout the scene of their operations, and communica tion between Canton with points to the north and west is generally inter rupted Traffic on the Chinese section of the railway lead ng north from Can ton has been suspended. A report that Snamien, the foreign concession above Canton, had been invaded lacks confirmation The Amer ican gunboat Wilmington has the place under her guns. Fasts roi 26 Days. While loading l"ml;er a month ago William T. Marvel, of Seaford, Del., stuck a small splinter into his thumb. The accident happened on a Friday, and Sunday afternoon the pain wa? so excruciating that a doctor was sum moned, and upon his arrival lockjaw had developed. Everything was done to relieve him, but without avail. Fasting was ordered and Marvel was kept alive for twenty six days by hypodermic Injections of morphine. Marvel has now recovered and he shows no ill effects from his fast and attack of tetanus. Says Alfonso Is Consumptive. I/Intransigeant, a Paris paper, as serts that King Alfonso is gravely ill with tuberculosis, and that at a re cent consultation of his physicians It was decided that urgent measures of treatment were necessary. It is also said that the physicians decided that the Spanish monarch should pass the coming winter at Le zins, Switzerland, where the climate is better adapted to his condition. DEATH LIST IN WRECKJLEVEN Spreading Ralls Caused Disas ter at Martin's Greek. AT LEAST 50 OTHERS INJURED Fragments of Bodies Removed From Ashes of Burned Coaches —Survi- vors Sent Home. Eleven lives were lost in the derail ment and burning of the Utica teach ers' special near Martin's creek, eight miles north of Easton, Pa., on the Pennsylvania railroad. The train, car rying l(i8 school teachers, was en route to Washington. The railroad men them selves say that the most remarkable feature of the wreck was that 100 weren't killed in the terrific shock and the sudden sweep of fire. The train had run by way of Scran ton over the Lackawanna railroad and was taken in charge by the Pennsyl vania crew at Stroudsburg. There were three coaches. The corps of teachers were having a merry time and looking forward to great times during their stay in Washington, a feature of which was to have been a reception by Vice President and Mrs. Sherman. There was a sudden grind and jar. The merry party w«»s thiown together in heaps and violently jerked into all sorts of positions, many of them burled under baggage. The en gine had left the tracks, turned over on its side and the coaches were de railed. While the panic-stricken teachers were making frantic efforts to get out of the cars the flames broke out, seeming to envelop the whole train at once and sweeping with frightful roar upon the struggling women, none of whom had been able to snatch any wraps or hand baggage. So swift was the descent of the flames that the six unfortunates who had been unable to get out of the coaches in time were cremated, It is supposed. Another presumption is that they fainted with fright and that in the panicky rush ti>e\ were overlook ed. The oil from the tank car into which the passenger engine had crash ed fed the furious flames, and practi cally every atom of the coaches were consumed in the fiery furnace. It Is supposed that coals from the firebox of the wrecked engine started the oil to buvn, while flames from the stoves in the dining car did the mischief in the rear. Of the dead there were three in the Easton hospital: Eleanor Rutherford, a teacher, of Utica; Charles M. Per son, the train conductor, of Strouds burg, and M W. Vanoy, the engineer, of Trenton. There seems to be no reason to doubt that others died in the fire. From the mass of ashes and twisted iron the wrecking crew removed frag ments of four bodies. Professor A. C. Burton, president of the Utica Tteachers' association, said that he had sent word home that these six teachers, ull of Utica, perished in the flames: Sophie Knoult, Mary Al len, Sarah Jones, Susan Sessions, Bes sie Walker and Louise Llndsman. Stewart F. Day, secretary to Mayor Frederick Gilmore, of Utica, sent word to the mayor that, alter a talk with the Pennsylvania railroad officials he was convinced that no further hope could be held out to the relatives ami friends of the six. Besides the six teachers, four em ployes of the Pennsylvania railroad are dead: Person, the conductor; Vanoy, the engineer: Harry Wilmer, the baggageman, and Joseph Bicknell, the tourist agent, whose home was in Philadelphia. All of the survivors save the in jured in the hosiptals have been sent home by the Pennsylvania railroad. Many of those who went back to Utica carried injuries, some of them serious, but they were able to travel. The investigation made by Professors Burton and Vincent Brown and Miss Marian Haskins, one of the heroines of the wreck, determined deflni'ely that at least fifty of the teachers were burned or cut or bruised. On board the special train there were thirty wo men whose hands or faces were band aged. Some were unable to sit up on account of sprained back? or dislocat ed ankles. rarrwAY imii _SJ^IJTJVVLT_IJF|!S^ "TT]2 3141516 7 8 9 101112113 14151617 21 222324252627 1282911311 I I I DARROW AND M'NAMARA. Labor Leader and Alleged Dyna | miter He Will Defend. oomt " uynamite Kiot. Epitomized, these were the import ant developments in connection with the bringing to Los Angeles, Cal., of John J. McNamara, James li McNa mara and Ortie McManigal, charged with complicity in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct. 1 of last year: James B. McNamara, called to the office of the county jail, ostensibly to hear from District Attorney John D. Fredericks an outline of his legal rigths, comes face to face with Mrs. D. II Ingersoll, of San Francisco. She identifies him positively as "J. B. Bryce," a lodger in her house in that city last September. Dropping the mask he iias been wearing for the benefit of his alleged accomplices in numerous dynamiting outrages, Ortie McManigal practically has revealed himself as the star in former of the William J. Bums detec tive agency and principal witness for the prosecution in the trial of the Mc- Namaras. McManigal not only has been in close touch witji Burns, but it is prac tically certain that he has received pay from Burns for serving him by playing his part in all the nets of the so-called "wrecking crew" to which ho has confessed His fear of the conse quences should the McNamaras and their friends leain his exact relation to Burns, explains the elaborate pre captions taken 'o prevent the truth from becoming known until all were safely in jail. Not until Wednesday when the train which brought them to California stopped at Pasadena did John T. McNamara know of his broth er's arrest and that information given by McManigal led to their apprehen sion. Burns evidently learned enough about McManigal to compel the latter togo through with his part as com manded and tell Burns every move of the wrecking crew and the location of every dynamite plant. McManigal is said to have told in detail of a large number of dynamiting cases in other cities. The confession conforms closely to that given out HARDWARE whatever it may be—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from When you think of HARDWARE of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. 75C PER YEAR BIG BALDWIN PLANT IS REPORTED SOLD Drexel & Go. Said to Have Bought Locomotive Works. A report in Philadelphia that Drexel & Co., the bankers, had completed negotiations for the purchase of the Baldwin Locomotive works caused a stir in financial circles and consider able speculation as to the object of :he transfer of ownership, but the widespread rumor could not be veri fied . It is said that the negotiations were completed when E. T Stotesbury, head of Drexel & Co., sailed for Eu rope several weeks ago. Since his departure it is said that Horatio S. l.loyd, of the banking firm, made the final arrangements with the directors of the Baldwin works. When ques tioned concerning the rumored deal, Mr. Lloyd would neither confirm nor deny it. The only official of the lialdwin works in the office was Samuel Vau clain. He said that if there ha-J been such a deal lie had no knowledge of it. W. L Austin, president, would neither discuss nor deny the alleged negotiations. The lialdwin company was incorpo rated under the laws of Pennsylvania in 1909, taking over the business and plants of Burnham, Williams & Co. There was authorized and issued $20,- 000,000 of stock and an issue of $15,- 000,000 of 5 per cent thirty-year sink ing fund bonds was authorized, of which $10,000,000 was sold. PET DOG A THIEF Steals and Buries Roll of Bills Amounting to S4O. Francis Riley, a farmer residing near Charleston, N. J., several days ago missed a roll of $1 bills amount ing to S4O, which he had laid on a table, while he took a wash at the pump before going to town t:> ;.ay several bills. When he looked tor the money it was missing. He was positive that no one had entered the house Besides himself, Tige, a pot i'ox 'erner, was the only living cieature in the room While fee I hi'-- his chickens, HI !e,v saw Tige quite a distance away, bus.'ly scratching. <' ri(.u.iy he went to in vestigate and found (hat the d .t- \ trying to bury a baby's lat le Riley's curiosity was aroused an 1 he had an inkling that Ti.:o's cache might contain other articles He dug into the hole and brought cuf s.irh things as spools, rattles, bock«, bones, etc Lastly he saw his roll of blib So overjoyed was Riley thai Tige w.;: noc even chastised. * 700 MINE WORKERS STRIKE Walk Out Because Company Rejects Checkweighman They Elected. Seven hundred mine workers of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal company at the Maxwell colliery at Ashley, Pa., went on strike because the company officials refused to permit a check weighman they had elected to serve. The officials staed that the check weighman did not have the proper certificate, and that as soon as he ob tained it he could take charge of the weighing of the cars. Heavy Storm Wrecks Village. Cuba, N. Y., was visited by a cyclone that caused great destruction in the center of the village. Scarcely a rrof was left on any of the business blocks. Wires and poles were blown down and the village cut off from communica tion. The storm blew down the barn of Monroe Rogers, killing Corry Rog ers, eighteen years old, his sen an>) several cows. Some of the timbers of the barn we>e hurled 000 feet.
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