AWFUL DISASTER IN FRENCH MINE Nearly l.:00 Men Reported Killed By Aa Explosion. A NUMBER WERE BROUGHT CUT. Bui Majority el tb 1,795 Art Believed Dead Explosion Occared 72J Fl Coder Orouod ad Fliaiet Belched From lb Moutht ot Ibe Pile, Burning Mtny to Death Scene li the Chamber ol Denb Ihtetcr.beb t. Paris, (t!y Cable). A mining catas trophe of incalculable horror and magni tude lias stricken the great coal center of Northern France. An explosion of fire dam(i at 7 o'clock carried death and de struction throughout the network of coal mint, centered at Courrieres, and tire followed the explosion, making rescue almost impossible. The intense excitement and confusion in the vicinity peveuti'd early estimates of ihc exact loss of life, but a dispatch received here .it 4 .J 5 1. M. gt've 1,404 SUncrs entombed and probably lost. At (345 IV M. a brief dispatch from Lille announced the total of dead. Ail t rance has been profoundly shock ed by the magnitude of the disaster, which is said to be the greatest in the history of Continental mining. rrcsident Fallieres sent his secretary, accompanied by Minister 0 Public Works Cautier and Minister of the In terior Dubicf on a special train to the scene of the disaster. The ministerial crisis was temporarily forgotten, Senators and Deputies join ing in the universal public manifesta tions of sorrow. The scene of the catastrophe is the mountainous mining region near Lens, in the department, of Pas de Calais. There are huddled small hamlets of the mincworkers, who operate the most pro ductive coal mines in ly ance. The sub terranean chambers form a series of un nels. Six of the outlets are near Lens and others are at Courrieres, Verdun and many other points. The output of these mines is palicularly combustible and is Uicd largely in the manufac'urc of gas and in smelting. About 2,000 miners work the group of mines and, with their families, make a population of from 0,000 to 8,000 souls. The catastrophe occurred shortly after ',ry5 men had descended into the mine. There was a deafening explosion, which was followed by the cages and mining apparatus beinij hurled from the mouth of the Courrieres mine. Men and horses near by outside the mine were cither killed or stunned. The roof of the mine office was torn off. Later the galler ies caved in, and further attempt at res cue was useless. Immediately following the explosion fiamcj burst from the mouth of the pit, driving back those outside who sought to enter and dooming those within. The work of attempting to rescue the imprisoned miners was hastily begun by officials, engineers and miners from the surrounding mines, who formed par ties and made heroic efforts to penetrate the smoke and foul ga-ses and bring out the imprisoned men. The families of the entombed miners crowded about the shaft, seeking fath ers or husbands and threatening, in their efforts to obtain details, to force back the gendarmes who kept them from the month of the pit. The populace of th.; district is appalled by the disaster, which affects every household. Those persons who were rescued were terribly burned. The latest estimates place those taken out at 501. Throughout the afternoon the heroic efforts at rescue were continued, bivt nightfall brought the conviction that the entombed'. men had been suffocated and the dispatch from I.illic at 8.45 P. M., announcing the number of dead at l.toj, teems to remove the last hope that others may be brought to the surface alive. During the evening a dispatch was re ceived from Lille which seemed to give some clue to the origin of the explosion. It was stated that a smoldering fire broke out in the Cecil pit of the Courrierc Mines, near Mi ricourt, at a depth of about 725 feet, where niasonary works were proceeding. The c:.ges in which the miners descended into pits 2. 3 and 4 were hurled 30 fret from the mouth of the shaft. A miner working near the mouth was killed and a horse was blown into the air. Some of the imprisoned miners sought to escape to the pits which remained intart and several rescues were made. The first cages came up at to o'clock with about a doen half-suffocated men, who wi re pomptly taken to the hospital. Among ihrni was M. Voi sin, an engineer, who had attempted to organize succor. CORPSE SAT LP; PRHillTFNEO WATCMFRS. Mrs. Sherwood Wis Prepared For Durlal, Cut Was Still Cooscious ol Everything. Lacross, Wis., (Special ). Conscious that 'he was being prepared fur burial, but unable to move a niuclc, Mrs. V. R. Sherwood, of Mabel, Minn., awoke from the deathlike trance just in time to prevent being buried alive. The woman died of pneumonia, pre sumably, and was laid upon a bier and candles were lighted about her. The absence of the embahner from the vil lage prevented her liody bcin; filled with poisonous embalming fluid, thus insuring death. Just before dawn two women silting up with the corpse were started by a wild shriek, and hurrying to the death chamber found the corpse sitting up. To Maintain Conslllu'loa. Albany, N. Y. ( Special). The Con stitutional League of the United States was incorporated "to assist in maintain ing and enforcing the Constitution of the United States of America in all its provisions and throughout its jurisdic tion." The directors are Henry K. T re main, of Ilillview, Warren County; Wil liam H. Derrick, of Flushing; J. F.. Mil. holland, of Lewis, F.ssex County; Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, and An drew B. Humphrey, of New York. Three Tralos It a Smaibcp. Toedo, O. (Special). Two killed and IS injured, one of whom will die, is the list of casualties in a wreck of tv. freight trains a.id the fast passenger train No. 7 on the Baltimore and Ohi:. Railroad, which occurred at 11. J5 o'clock about two miles from Bloomdale. Twr engines were completely wrecked nnd the mail and express cars, two baggage cr.rs, two passenger coaches and four freight can were completely demolished a:u' later burned up. After being out all night, a jury found Dr. J. B. Mathews, accused of the mur der of his wife in Greensboro, N. C, guilty of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. Dr. Oliver C. I laugh, accused of poisoning his father, mother and several other members of the family, and then setting the house on lire, at Dayton, O., has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. Mrs. Kdward M. Standifer, of At lanta, ("la., shot and killed her if year old si-trr, Mis Vhienant, because Mrs. Standifer believed her husband was attentive to the unmarried woman. The sentence of Mrs. Antiemetic Tolla, who was to be hanged in New Jersey for the murder of Joseph Sonta, has been committed to seven and a half years in prison. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte states that his next annual report will have sontk'thinR to say about battle ships of the IJrcaduanght class. Gen. Henry C. Corbin, who has re turned from the Orient, says there will be no war between the United States and China. The late Mrs. J. Thompson Swann's estate, valued at S.,00.000, is reported to have been left to Princeton Univer sity, and will be devoted to the develop ment of the graduate school. The Allcn-lliggins Company, manu facturers of wall paper, at Worcester, Mass., was placed in charge of a re ceiver. The indebtedness is estimated at $197,709. L. Stuckcy, editor of the People's De mands, of Shrecsport, La., was shot and killed by A. M. Goodwin, editor of the Colfax Chronical, at Colfax, La. The pres'dent and two vice presidents of the Mutual Reserve Insurance Com pany were indicted by the New York Grand Jury. The three convicts who mutined at the Missouri Penitentary and killed a gate man were convicted of murder in the first degree. There was a mutiny on board the steamer Massachusetts while lying at her Brooklyn dock, in which a fireman was killed. Three deaths were caused by the col lision of a passenger train on the Dela ware and Htfdson with a milk train near Saratoga. Two police sergeants and eight pa trolmen were suspended in St. Louis, pending investigation of charges in graft ing. District Attorney Devlin, of California, believes he has a strong case against the Elevator Trust. Mrs. W. B. Lewaller, of Philadelphia, has sought the protection of the police of New Orleans, stating that a meet ing of socialists delegated her to assassi nate President Roosevelt and that her life was in danger because she had not done so. Berthe Claiche informed District At torney Jerome that she paid money to three members of the vice squad of the New York police for the privilege of walking the streets and named 50 police men who got tribute from other women. Attorney Whipple declared in a Bos ton court that Rogers and Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnates, show inso lent contempt in declining information and then asking the court for a decree in their favor. ' The Illinois Coal Operators' Associa tion will oppose the demands of mine workers regardless of the action to be taken by the National Association of Mincowners. During a pistol duel between Mrs. Alice Moore and Mrs. Lucy Taylor, of Mid dlesboro, Ky., over a love affair a by stander was shot in the head and killed. A Lehigh Valley Railroad train struck a wagon loaded with powder, but the train escaped destruction, as the pow der burned instead of exploding. Antonio Bozzuffl, the 14-year-old son of an Italian banker, who was kidnapped by three masked men, has escaped them and returned home. 1 OlifclO.N Foreigners believe that the Chinese magistrate at Nanchang committed sui cide as a protest against the Catholic demands and for the purpose of arous ing the natives. Anna L'.mailovitch, daughter of a Russian general, who attempted to as sassinate Governor Kourlotf, has had her sentence committed to impisoument for hie. The Au -triaii proposition containing a .scheme for the policing of Morocco acceptable to Germany is believed to be a step toward a Mituis.factory solution. The Porte has agreed to the Ameri can demands for . the admission, duty fn-e, of ail consignments to the Ameri can schools in Syria. investigation shows that the "Black it unarm oganizatiuiis are agitating tor another massacre of the Jews 111 Russia at Easter. French 1 Ificia's believe that the situa tion at Algeciras is. much improved, with the chances strongly favoring au agreement. A band of women -uffragists tried to force an entrance to the residence of Premier Cajiipbell-Banncrman, in Lon don. The F'ather Gapon labor organiza tion in St. Petersburg has expelled Father Petroff as a traitor. French officials say the ministeral crisis does not effect F'reuch policy at the Moroccan conference. Leon Bourgeoise seems to lead the list of statesmen mentioned for new premier. British War Scretary Holdanc, in in troducing the army estimates in Parli ment, amounting to nearly $150,000,000, said the Liberals wanted greater effici ency at less expenditure. Harry S. Simons and Franklin liver hart, Americans, were arrested in .Lon don on charges of conspiracy and ob taining large sums of money by fraud. The Protestant missionaries at Sui chou, Province of Kiangsi, have been es corted to Kinkiang. The Catholic mis sionaries at Suichou refused to leave. It is leported that Russian Minister of the Interior Durnovo has issued instruc tions to prevent the election of Radicals I 1 the national assembly. The Marchioness of Corsini, formerly Princess Barbcrini, was killed by the overturning of an automobile in Rome. By the collapse of the gallery staging in liarl's mine at Raibl, district of Tar vism, Austria, 40 miners and one engi neer were killed. A snow avalanche at the Lofoten Is lands, Norway, buried a number of fish ermen's huts; 21 persons perished and 39 were injured. After an exciting debate in the F'reuch Chamber of Deputies relative to church inventories, the Rouvicr ministry was lefeated, and decided to offer its resig nation to President ralhetes. The British House of Commons adopt I a motion for the payment of salaries if tl.soo to members of Parliament. BIG BATTLE IN PHILIPPINES A Rcmarkble Fight in Volcano Craer. SIX HUNDRED MOROS KILLED. Losse of the American Forces Over Seventy. ARTILLERY LIFTED OVER 300 FEET. Captain Rivera aod Three Other Army Officers and Ntvtl Ensign Wounded Moro Con slabulary Bravely Assisted the Amerlcao Soldiers aod Sallora lo Attacking and An nihilating the Oesperait Mo e tit nd In aa Almost Impregnable Fastness oo a Moun tain 2.IG0 Feel High oo Ibe Island of Jolo. THE CASUALTIES. Six hundred Moros, all the de fenders of their mountain strong hold, killed. Fifteen men of Sixth United States Infantry killed and five wounded. Thirty-two men of naval forces killed or wounded. Three killed and 17 wounded ' of the native constabulary. Capt. Tyrcc R. Rivers, of Fourth Cavalry, and three other army officers and one naval offi cer wounded. Seventeen out of the force of 44 of the constabulary engaged were killed or wounded. Total casualties of American forces: Killed, 18; wounded, 56. Manila, (By Cable). General Wood reports the hardest fight that has oc curred since the close of the insurrection in the Philippines. The battle, which lasted two days, was between the Ameri can forces near Jolo, Jolo Island, and Moro outlaws infesting the mountains, who defied the authority of the Sultan and raided peaceful inhabitants. The Moros were attacked and anni hilated in their unique fort in the lava cone or crater of a volcano on Mount Dajo, 2,100 feet high. The operations were directed by Col. Joseph W. Dun can, of the Sixth Infantry. The Americans lost 18 killed and 52 wounded. The losses of the Moros wcrc 600 killed. WOUNDED OFFICERS. Among the Americans wounded were: ENSIGN H. S. COOKE, JR., of the American steamer Pampanga, whose in juries arc severe. CAPT. JOHN R. WHITE, of the constabulary, severely wounded in the thigh. CAPT. TYREE R. RIVERS, of the Fouth Cavalary, wounded in thigh; slight. FIRST LIEUTENANT GORDON JOHNSTON, severely wounded in the shoulder. FIRST LIEUTENANT ERNEST H. AGNEW of the Sixth Infantry, wounded in the hand. FIRST LIEUTENANT WILEY T. CONWAY, eye; slight. A naval contingent operated with the military and sustained 32 casualties, in cluding Coxswain Gilmore, slightly wounded. PERPENDICULAR RIDGES. In his report General Wood says, after describing the field of operation: "The last 400 feet of the mountain were at an angle of 50 degrees, and there were 50 perpendicular ridges, covered with a growth of timber, strongly forti fied and defended by an invisible force of Moros." After cnnuincrating the losses as above given, General Wood adds : All the defenders of the Moro strong hold were killed. The artillery was lifted by block and tackle for a distance of 300 tect ana placed in a position on the ho of the crater. It was the most difficult position we ever assaulted. The resist ance was literally to the death. Briga dier General Bliss and myself were pres ent throughout the action. I he attacking columns were com manded by Major Omar Bundy, Capt. K. 1 . l.awton, Captain Kivcrs, Capt. L. M. Koehler, Captain McClarhern and Lieu tenant Johnston. "1 he officers and men engaged hiiihlv commend the constabulary, who did excellent work. I heir casualties num be red 17 out of the force of 44 engaged.' MOROS GREAT FIGHTERS. The Moros arc big, well-built men and splendid fighters. Like all of the islands of that archi pelago, Jolo is volcanic. During the last two years, however, most of the volca noes have been extinct and in the dry craters water has accumulated and little lakes have been formed. Those dry craters often form a splendid natural for tification, the country around it beina open and the top being eminent and easily Uelenuali";. For eight months past the Moros have held the crater of Mount Dajo. and from there they sailed forth on journeys of depredation. The completeness of their rout and the terrible punishment in flicted upon them, as well as the pres ence of Generals Wood and Bliss, leads to the conclusion that the attack was well planned and carefully executed. Saakt Scared Children. Washington, (Special) Charles S, Miller, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in default of $200 fine by Judge Kimball, of the District Police Court, for frightening school children with a rubber tnake. Miller was be fore the District Police Court, charged with having pursued children with rublier snake, which he -threatened to put about their necks. To flrt Bomb of Light Washington, (Special). Steel bombs containing carbide and an automatic ig niting apparatus which may be shot in to the darkness from a gun and upon striking the water will flare up with an inextinguishable light which may not be put out save by a lucky shot was one of the subjects discussed by the Naval Board of Construction. Thit de vice hat never been used in the Navy The device is guaranteed to burn an hour rod its duration may readily be hvreared. , LIVE WASHIMilON AllAltf Making War 00 lb White Death. A crusade against the spread of tub erculosis among the employes of the gov ernment service in Washington was di rected by President Roosevelt, who is sued an order to the heads of all depart ments, giving them explicit instructions as to their duties in combatting the dis ease. The following is the text of the order: 'In accordance with the report and recommendations of the committee ap pointed by executive order of December ", I005, to prepare a plan for the pre vention of tubcrclusosis m the govern ment offices and workshops, I hereby promulgate the following order, with the object of eliminating and preventing tubcrclusosis among the employes of the public serv cc : 'It shall be the duty of the head of each of the executive departments in Washington to cause lo be printed and transmitted to all of the federal build ings tinder his control the rules pre pared by said committee to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in the buildings, ind to require their d-plav bv the cus todian in such manner and in such num ber as is necessary to carry out the in tent of the rules. "It is hercbv required of each de partment to ascertain the names of any persons in service in said department afllictcd with tuberculosis, and to pre sent to them the printed rules pre.cribcd bv said committee for their observance. "flic nonobservancc of said rules shall, in the discretion of the head of the department, be considered a just cause for separation from the service. hencver there is a doubt with re gard to any person in the government service as to whether said person is af flicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, an order shall lc issued for said person to present himself (or herself) at one of the government laboratories for examination, and to present the department, from the director or other authorized officer of the said laboratory, a certificate showing the result of said examination. If a govern ment laboratory is not accessible, the laboratory investigation shad be made at government expense. I he surgeon general of the Army, the surgeon general of the Navy and the surgeon eeneral of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service are hereby directed to cause a thorough sanitary in spection of the public buildings and workshops under their respective de partments ; and they are authorized to detail from their respective medical ser vices a sanitary board, or boards, for this purpose. The inspection of the public buildings and workshops other than those under the War and Navy Depart ments shall be conducted under the sur geon general of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The sanitary board, or boards, thus appointed shall report upon: First, insanitary conditions immedi ately remediable; second, insanitary con ditions requiring structural changes. 'The said board when entering upon its duties in any department shall report to the executive head of said building or workshop, who shall, on the repucst of the board, give such assistance as may be required. The sanitary board, or boards, will make reports to the surgeon general of tfieir respective services, who shall bring these reports before the committee ap pointed by executive order of December 7, 1905, and said committee shall trans mit a full report with recommendations to the President. "These duties to be additional to, and not take precedence of, the regular duties of the members of the committee. "Theouork Roosf.vklt." For Clean Paper Money. Clean paper money, was the subject of a hearing before the House Com mittee on Banking and Currency. Repre sentative Gaines, of lcnnessec, said the high charges of express companies for shipping paper money prevent banks from sending dirty money to the United States Treasury for reissuance. He urged that his bill for the shipment of dirty money by mail, without cost to the shipper, be passed. Mr. Gaines said President Roosevelt asked him a few days ago about the Clean Money Bill, and said he is anxious to have a meas ure passed ot keep the government's pa per money clean. He also said Secretary hh.iw is much interested in keeping mon ey clean. It was urged by Mr. Gaines that at present much of the government's paper money carries disease germs and threatens public health. The Interstate Commerce Commission is to re-open the case of William R. Hearst against coal railroads, in which hei alleged the transportation lines were interested financially in coal mines. A resolution and a bill designed to cure the defects in the Tillman railroad in vestigation plans by giving greater pow ers to the Interstate Commerce Com mission were introduced in the House. Senator Eikins, of West Virginia, is out in an interview on the methods he will use to strengthen the Hepburn Rate Bill and fight the alleged railroad dis crimination evils in his state. Enemies of President Roosevelt prac tically killed the statehood bill in the Senate by amending it and forcing it back to the House. The House passed 408 private pension bills. The jury in the case of ex-State Sena tor George E. Green, of New York, on trial for conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the sale of time-recording clocks to the Postomce Department, brought in a verdict of not guilty. John D. King, chairman of the Rural Carriers' Examining Board of Civil Ser vice F-xaminers, died in Washington. Secretary Shaw submitted to Congress au estimate of $0.27,000, for a cable from Key West, Fla., to Guantanamo', Cuba, and thence to the Panama Canal zone. The Postoffkc and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bills were completed by the House com mittees having charge of them. Col. John W. Bubb has been selected to be brigadier ;eneral, to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of General Carr. Another contribution of $10,000 was sent by the Christian Herald for the famine sufferers in Northern Japan, Commander Horsley reported that re pairs were progressing on the Dry dock Dewev at Las Palmas, Canaries, and that he expected to resume his journey on the twellth. The President tent a message to Con gress stating that he had signed the re solution for an investigation of the rela tions of railroads to coal and oil, but stating that he did not expect the in vestigation to amount to much. The Senate Committee on Foreign Re lations authorized a favorable report on Senator Taliaferro's bill to prohibit aliens from taking sponges in water of the United btatel. OUTBREAK IN PEKIN FEARED Chinese Paper Tuts th'- Blame Upon Japan. UMTED STATES CALLED SENSATIONAL A Chargt Thai the Latter, With the Snppoil of the United Slates and (Ireet llrtno, If 1: 0 lore In g a Program ol Progress, ve Reform May La Necessary to Ucposo the Eaipr.-st Dowager. Hongkong, (By Cable). The South China Morning Post, analyzing the sit uation in the Chinese Empire with ref erence to the rumors of a pending anti foreign outbreak, expresses the opinion that a revolutionary rising at Peking is imminent. It considers this danger the result of steps taken by Japan, with the support of the United States and Great Britain, to enforce a program of progressive re form upon the Chinese govcrn-v... ni. Yuan Shi Kai, the most powerful man in China, being used .is the instilment for this purpose A secret agreement between the Japanese government and the progressive party ?t Peking undoubt edly exists. It may be necessary for Japan to de pose the Empress Dowager unless she acquiesces in the effort to chaiijic the government. Upon any other hypothesis than the foregoing the Post fails to imder-tand what it calls the "sensational" attitude ot the United States government with re gard to antiforeign feeling in China which feeling, says The Post, does not exist. The recent massacres of mission aries were due to local feeling, the con sequence of grave indiscretions on the part o? the missionaries. Even the boy cott is confined to the mercantile classes. There is nothing, The Post concludes, really to justify apprehensions of anti foreign feeling or to warrant the dispatch of American troops. Refuge For Missionaries. Shanghai, (By Cable). The Protes tant missionaries at Suichou, Province of Kiangsi, have been escorted to Kiukaing. The Catholic missionaries a Suichou re fused to leave the place, and the gov ernor is sending another escort for them. The Chinese concerned in the icccnt rioting at Nanchang, Province of Kiang si, have confessed their guilt, but main tain that they were justified hi attacking the Catholics, as the latter had slabbed the magistrate. London (By Cubic). The correspond ent of The 1 ribunc at Peking says that Yuan Shi Kai, commander-in-chief of the imperial Chinese forces, forwarded 18 mountain guns from Tientsin to Shun- tcfu, 150 miles south of Peking, in the Province of Chili. Shuniefu is the seat of a mission of the American Presbyterian Board, and there are located there Rev. Dr. J. L. W hiting and wife, Rev. E. C. Hawley and wife, Dr. G. W. Hamilton and wife and Dr. Louise Kcater. OLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR ZION. Pathetic Appeal Made By Overseer Vollva to the Dowlcilec Chicago ( Special) Picturing a gloomy finan-cial situation and recognizing a crisis, Overseer Voliva called upon the residents of Zion City for over $.250,000 to save the community from the money lenders and thus to relieve the present pressure and put the industries on a paying basis. As security he promised the people first mortgages on the lace factory and the printing-house. He call ed upon ministers to give up their sala ries ; he asked clerks and laborers to work for $,..VJ a week, and upbraided the followers of Dr. Dowic for wearing jewelry and gaudy clothes. "Accept in pay just enough to provide for living ex penses," was his urgent request, he him self declaring he was willing to live on 25 cents a week, if possible thus to keep soul and body together. FUN TO WRECK TKAINS. Pour Men Arretted Near Paisalc Confesa Hav ing Made Several Attempts. New York, (Special). Four young men were arrested near Passaic, N. J., charged with attempting to wreck an eastbotind Buffalo express train on the Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad, and have confessed that this was their sixth attempt at train-recking. All of the attempts were made in the vicinity of Passaic. They said the only reason for the acts was a desire to wit ness the excitement which would attend a wreck. The Buffalo express escaped disaster by an exceedingly narrow mar gin. It was running nearly an hour late and at a high rate of speed, when the engineer saw the obstruction on the track. He succeded in bringing the train to a stop less than a car length from where a numlier of ties and iron fish plates were piled on the trad:. Elghlycent Ua lor New York. Albany, N. Y., ( Special). The Senate passed the bill making he rate for gas in Greater New York 80 cents per 1,000 feet. The bill now goes to .the Governor, it having already passed the Assembly. The measure excepts several wards in Brooklyn, for which it provides a sliding scale. Police Oraft la St. Louis. St. Louis, JIo., (Special). Two ser geants and eight patrolmen were sus pended from the police department by Acting Chief of Police Gillaspy, pend ing investigation of charges, it it said, that will be formally preferred against them before the police board. All the men were until recently on duty in the Central District, which is in the center of the grand jury investigation into charges of "grafting." Oovirnment Powder PUnlt. Washington, D. C. (Special). Repre sentative Hull, chairman of the House Committee on Military affairs, introduced a bill appropriating $.200,000 for the con Ktruction of a government powder plant to have a capacity of manufacturing 1,000 pounds of powder daily. Representative Williams, the minority leader, introduced a bill appropriating $750,000 for a gov ernment smokeless powder plant. An Italian who tried to walk throunh the Simplon tunnel was stifled by the heat and died. NEW VC.lv LlFfc AhLK EAfiltTON To Sue For Restitution of Money Paid Mm. New York, (Special). The announce ment was made that the New York Life's suits s.gdintt Judge Andrew Hamilton for an accounting and restitution will be bcun in a few days. John G. Milburn, of counsel for the Powder investigating committee, said : "The suits will be pressed immediately for the return of the moftey. I shall return to New York city at once, and there will be no delay in prosecuting the actions." Mr. Milburn was asked about the probability of criminal action against Hamilton. He said that was entirely in the hands of the District Attorney" Mr. Milburn said that the counsel believ ed they had a good case against the Mc Call estate and Hamilton. Hiram R. Steele, who is acting as chairman of the New York Life's inves tigation committee in the absence of Thomas Fowler, decided with cx-Judgc William A. Keener, who is one of the cnmiiitcc's lawyer-;, to begin the actions a soon as possible, although from t re present prospects Hamilton has not much property. The report that Hamilton has returned to this country to do anything in his I power to clear John A. McCall's name I was discredited by the New York Life I trustees. They pointed out that the Fow ler investigating committee urged mm to return' before Mr. McCall's death. That, in the opinion of some of the New York Life trustees, was when Hamilton ought to have acted if he contemplated doing anything for Mr. McCall. Mr, Hamilton's friends gave as his opinion that the "Judge" would not make I any sensational disclosures relative to his expenditures in supervising legislation. This man pointed out that Hamilton is I 011 record in black and white in his rc- t . . . . . x- x. 1. t r . . .. pore 10 me jcw 1 orK 1,11c trustees as denying absolutely that a penny of the money which he received was spent for illegal or improper purposes. After hav ing made such a statement any disclos ures to the contrary would be putting a lie in his own mouth. This man ad ded significantly, however: "Judge Hamilton will be amply able to take care of himself in anv situation th.tt may arise." The New York Life trus tees do not believe that Hamilton can do anv harm to them. Judge Horn!. ton May Aid Jerome. New York (Special). If, according to a report, Judge Andy Hamilton returned from Paris at the instigation of District Attorney Jerome and has been promised immunity if he tells all he knows, Mr. Jerome refused to say anything about it. All questions intended to draw Mr. Je rome out on the sr.bjcct he refused to answer. It is not believed, however, that Mr. Hamilton has been promised immunity by Mr. Jerome. It is possible that Mr. Jerome may have had some communi cation with Mr. Hamilton, cither di rectly or, through some of the Judge's friends. Mr. Hamilton is said to have been anxious to find out if he would be made a scape goat if he returned to this country. He was informed that he would be treated the same as anyone else involved in Mr. Jerome's investigation. Cbonte lo Serve. New York (Special). Jos. H. Choate has accepted a retainer as counsel for the Mutual Life's self - investigation com mittee. It is understood that Mr. Choate insisted on assurance that the investiga tion would be thorough in every line of the company's affairs, and that he would be absolutely untrammelcd in his work fs counsel. There was some doubt in Mr. Choatc's mind as to the propriety of his accccpting a retainer from the com mittee and acting as counsel for the com pany in the McCurdy, Raymond & Co. suits at the same time. The members of the committee assured him that his rela tion with the company would not inter, fere in the least with his work for the committee. rmperor William'! Thankt. Berlin (By Cable). Emperor William has expressed to President l-'liot, of Har vard University, through the German Ambassador at Washington, his pleas ure and sincere thanks for the magnani mous Emperor William Fund, amount ing to $.25,000, presented to the Harvard Germanic Museum by friends of Ger many in America in remembrance of the Emperor's silver wedding. Smsll Declared Gill'y. Mount Holly, N. J. ( Special). The jury in the case of George Small, the negro charged with the murder of Mis Allinson, of .Mooreslown, came in with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Small declared as the jury re turned their verdict that he was innocent. He was sentenced to be hanged on March 24, at which time his companion in crime, Rufus Johnson, will also be executed. Tragedy al t Churcb. Paris (By Cable). A serious riot oc curred at Iiocschcpe, near Hazenbrouck, Department du Nord, caused by the au thorities attempting to take an inventory of the church property there under the separation law. -A butcher was killed and five persons injured. A priest was ser iously wounded, being hit in the head by a bullet. Charged Willi Killing Aged Wife. Belleville, Out. ( Special) Fred Klenj bcil, aged 70, a farmer near here, is in jail charged with having beaten his wife to death. Klengbeil admits having a quar rel with his wife and beating her with his hands only. The body of the old woman was horribly battered. City Ownership Wlot la Settlle. Seattle, Wash. (Special). Judgc VVil liam Moore, municipal-ownership candi date for' major, was elected by the small majority of 15 votes, after one of the closest fights in the history of the city. John Riplingcr, Republican candidate, was badly cut in many of the wards, and ran far behind his ticket, the remainder of which, with the exception of a council man or two, was elceted. TJie leaders of the Municipal Ownership party charge gross frauds in several of the wards. To Prltoa For Lilt. " Caffncy, S. C. (Special). After be ing out all night, the jury in the case of George Hasty, indicted for the murder of Milan Bennett and Abbot Davidson, members of the "Nothing But Money" theatrical company, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, accompaying it with a recommendation to mercy. Hasty wat immediately sentenc ed to imprisonment for life. He received, the verdict and sentence without a tre-' mor, but thortly afterwards, and for the, first time since the trial began, broke, down and wept TDE KEYSTONE STATE The Latest Peaniylvanla Newt Ttld It Start Ordtr. Official records of the deaths and births in Delaware County for the year t'X5 hat jurt been made public, and) shows that Darby Borough leads all other boroughs in the county, both ir births and deaths. Seventy-seven births ere recorded in the borough for the year, which is more than balanced by. eighty deaths. The. borough of Clifton comes second, with fifty-two births and forty-one deaths, showing a gain ol eleven. Lansdownc is third with forty, tight births and forty-three deaths. At a meeting of the Hamburg health authorities, it was reported that since September 23, 1905, forty-three cases of diphtheria were reported within the bor ough limits, while the adjoining town ships were also reported as having an unusually large number of cases, several public schools being closed. Seven deaths occurred. F'leven cases of sera let fever also developed. Charles Smith, who for fifteen years had been switchman for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, in the yards in Wilkes Barre without accident, made a misstep the other morning, slipped and fell di rectly in front of the Delaware and Hudson train for which he had just thrown a switch, and was killed. Mrs. John Pcdlow, aged 60 years, ol Upland, while jalking to neighbors in her yard, Thursday afternoon, threw up her hands and fell dead. The de ceased was the mother of Prof. George; W. Pcdlow, a well-known Delaware County educator. Edgar Labcr, a resident of Monroe County, was arrested and charged with cutting timber belonging to the State in Middle Smithficld. The arrest is the first made in the county. Chalkcy J. Yettcr, aged 55, formerly proprietor of, the famous Mortonville Hotel, when in former years was noted for fox hunting all over he county, died at the Mrs. Lewis place, near Sconnell town, after suffering for a few days from an attack of pneumonia. He wai one of the most prominent residents of Mortonville. Mr. Yettcr had twice mar ried and leaves a wiodw and three sons, Charles, William and Francis. The de ceased was a member of the Williamson Lodge, F. of A. M., of Downingtown, and took quite an active interest in the fraternity. Stanley W. Little, aged 64 years, a promnient Bradford County attorney,' committed suicide by shootinp. He had been suffering fromniclancholia for sev eral weeks. Raphael McLaughlin, a Philadelphia chemist, defended himself against the charge of forging the name of Hep burn & Carr to check because he was insane from excessive use of narcotics. The jury convicted him. ; Charles A. Smith, of Hazleton, has been appointed a trustee of the Hazelton State Hospital, vice Luther C. Smith, of Drifton, resigned. f The Merchants' Association of Johns town has passed resolutions calling upon the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to adopt a 2-cent rate. Charles Reddick, of West Monterey, was sentenced nt Clarion to seventeen years in the penitentiary for murder in the second degree for killing John Pickcrd, whose body was found in the Allegheny River last December. As a result of the failure of the Pri mary Election Boards of North Y'ork to provide for the nomination of suffi cient candidates for the office of Audi tors, the borough will be short one Au ditor for the coming fiscal year. E. M. Bare, Republican;, was elected president of the Council for the ensuing year. The Borough Counucil of Kennett Square organized by electing John Cun cannon, president; William E. Vorhees secretary and Davis W. Entrikin treas urer. John A. Wolf has been elected presi dent of ihc Borough Council of West Grove; Miss Bertha Bailey, treasurer, and Rol crt Johnston, secretary. A 20000-gollon ttftik on top of the mushroom houses of William Sharplcss, at Toughke-namon, Chester County, col lapsed, wrecking the building. A work man who was in the house had a narrow escape from death. Former Select Councilman. John Ham den, of Altoona, had removed from hi; car a piece of glass which was imbeddet! in the fiesh forty years ago by an explo sion of powder in a mine at Petersburg, where he was waiting to be mustered out of the Union Army. Amandus 'Seiple, an insurance agenl of Easton, aged about 70 years, dreamed during the night that a fire was raging in the vicinity. He awakened, saw a light out of his window, and began to investigate. He found a fire burning within ten feet of his bed in a stairway leading to the garret in his own house. He raised an alarm and the family wa.i able to escape. Mr. Seiple was badly burned in fighting the flames, which were subdued by the firemen. A syndicate headed by C. S. Jennings of Baltimore finally closed a deal for the! charter rights and franchises of thq Somerset Street Railway Company. The company proposes to at opce begin tho construction of a trolley system betweeil Johstown and Cumberland, at a cost of $1,000,000. The Mcyesdale-Salisbury sec lion will be constructed first. The $50,000 damage suit which Marie A. Fields, of the Hanover Hat Company, instituted against H. N. Gitt, a wealthy merchant of Hanover, and a former Democratic candidate for Congress from that district, terminated when the jury after about six hours' deliberation award ed the plaintiff $5,000. While hunting work in the Conemaugh yards at Johnstown, George Tompkins, of Luzerne County, was run down by an engine and killed. Mrs. Issac H. Weikcrt, residing near Gettysburg, accidciitly shot and instant ly killed her, sister, Miss Eliza Weaver. Mrs. Weikert was examining a revolver which' had just been purchased by her husband. She thought the chambers were empty. Tijey were not. The wea pon, was discharged and a bullet en tered Miss Weaver's brain. Mrs. Wei kcrt is heartbroken over the affair and is in a serious condition. Because the refused try marry him, Louis Organa, of Dupont, knocked Miss Mary Forbeth down, bruised her 'face and loosened three of her teeth. She had him arrested and he was locked up to await trial for assault and battery. He proposed to her five minutes after they had been introduced. She was to sur prised that she could do nothing but thake her head ' and he repeated the proposal she replied with an emphatic "No." 1 Then, enraged, he used hit fist In nress his suit.
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