TWENTY-ONE PEOPLE BURNED IN TRAIN WRECK Head-on Collision of Two Trains on the Denver and Rio Grande During a Snowstorm A Signal Operator Asleep. Pueblo, Col., (Special) Some two score lives were crushed out in a head on collision of two passenger trains near Adobe, Col., on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and more than a score of the victims were incinerated be yond identification by a fire that destroy ed the wrecked coaches. More than a score were injured, hut all will probably recover. The reck was due to undelivered or ders, heavy mountain grades, a blinding snowstorm, a sharp curse and the slip pery condition of the rails. Only the locomotive, baggage and d.iy coaches were wrecked, the sleeping cars escap ing almost unscathed, as m the Eden disaster on the same road in 1004. when part of a train ran into a Hooded canyon through a washed-out bridge. Many of the dead were, homeseekers bound for the Northwest. The three crushed locomotives set lire to the splin tered coaches, and it was hours before all the bodies were recovered, the flames being so hot that rescuers could not ap proach the debris until the fuel burned out. It was a wild, stormy night in the mountain canyons when the two heavy trains met. lilinding snow darkened the rocky gorges and speed was not high. Suddenly headlights flashed out, and it was realized by the engineers that some thing was wrong. According to Fireman J. If. Smith, of the westbound train. Engineer Walter Coslett applied the emergency brake, but the slippery sails allowed the momentum of the heavy train to carry it on to the fatal crash. The impact was scarcely noticeable, but the trains crushed and ground into each other. The helper engine of th westbound train acted as a cushion, minimizing the force and weight of the heavy mountain engines. This helper was crushed together like so much pa per and the larger locomotives ran through the mesh of iron and plowed each other to pieces. Fireman Smith was the only one of the engine crews to escape. The baggage car of the westbound train broke in two and three coaches were squeezed togeth er. The baggage ear, the mail car and a coach of the eastbound train buckled, but none of the cars telescoped. POLICYHOLDERS liiAKE PROTEST Their Money Spent in Campaign" For Proxies. THE NEW YORK LIFE IS CRITICISED. Letter Seal to Aiexandsr E. Orr oa Be hill of 50,00) Policyholder, Strongly Protesting Agaioet the Effort of Trustees Whose Terms Shortly Expire to Hare Themielvea Re-e'ected. New York (Special.). Samuel Unter myer, counsel for the International Poli cyholders' Committee, of the New York Life Insurance Company, sent a letter to Alexander E. Orr, president of the New York Life, protesting, in the name of the policyholders, against what he terms the extraordinary effort that is being made by the officers of the com pany to obtain proxies for the annual election which is to be held next month. It is estimated that more than $60,000 has been spent in this way. The poxies are for use at the annual meeting of the New York Life, on April It, in the event of the failure to pass the Armstrong committee recommenda tions before that date. If the Arm strong committee bills relating to mutual company trustees are enacted before April 11 the proxies will, of course, be void, and the annual meeting postponed until November" 15, or some other date set by the committee, when an entire new board will be elected. Mr. l'nte:nycr in bis letter to President Orr intimates that it is the desire of the management to re-elect the six trustees lit the April election for the effect which it will have in the more strenuous cam paign that will precede the annual elec tion set by the Armstrong committee. Mr. L'utcrmyer's letter in part is as fol lows : "As counsel for policyholders and com mittees that arc now representing up wards of 50.000 policyholders in your company. I am instructed to protest in their behalf against the extraordinary use that is being made by you and your pany who arc being pressed into the M.-rvict of soliciting poxies for the re election of yourself and associates as directors at enormous expense to the policyholders. "It was under your administration that the requests of policyholders for an in spection of the lists, so that they might know who are their associates and be able to communicate with them as to the selection of trustees, was recently de nied. "Whc u the court granted that demand A Battle) la Nigeria. London, (By Cable). A dispatch from Zungeru, Northern Nigeria, to the Daily Mail reports that the British puntive ex pedition has crushed the Sokoto revolt after heavy fighting, in which the rebels twice charged the British square and were almost annihilated. The town of Eatirk, which was held by the rebels in force, was bombarded and then captured at the point of the bayonet. Over 300 rebels were killed. ClcvelaaH'e Birthday. Princeton, N. J. (Special). Sunday was former President Grover Cleve land's sixty-ninth birthday, and for the first time in several years Mr. Cleveland was not at home to celebrate the day with bis family. The ex-President left here a few drys ago for Florida 011 a trip frr pleasure and health, and will be in the South for about five weeks. The ex-President will spend his time while in F!orifi hunting and fishing in com pany with Professor McCIenahan, cf Princeton, who accompanied him on the trip. Hardly bad the noise of the wreck ceased, when a sheet of fire ran through the shattered cars of both trains. In the forward coach of the westbound every seat was occupied by passengers, most of whom were houicscekcrs. A number of foreigners were among thern, and in their terror they gave up life without making any attempt to reach safety out side the burning car. They sank to the floor of the car and were roasted alive. The cooler ones in the car, seeing their danger, rushed for the windows and doors, and with the aid of the passengers in the rear train and those members of the train crew who were unhurt managed to reach the open air. Many were injured by the rough handling they received or by (lying glass. When the ocenpants of the two sleep ing cars saw that nothing could be done to check the flames they aided the train men in pushing back the undamaged cars. Communication was opened with the Fuehlo office of the railroad from Port land, a mile from the wreck, and a re lief train with physicians was dispatched to the wreck. The iifjured were placed in the sleeping cars ami brought to Pueb lo with the passengers of the eastbound train who were unhurt. Another relief train came from Florence to take away the uninjured portion of the eastbound train. It is impossible to determine the exact number of dead on account of the incin eration of many bodies. The number of victims burned is said to be at least 20. The railroad officers asserted that onlv 15 persons were killed. The monetary damage to railroad prop, env is $200,000. In addition to this much baggage and mail were destroyed. One of the pathetic tragedies of the disaster was the wiping out of all but two of the fam'Jv of Tavlor Hewitt, of I I.elo. Kan. Father, mother, daughter, I grandchild and the wives of the sons arc j missing. The two sons E. A. Hewitt j and V. I.. Hewitt arc among the in ; j tired in the hospitals here, each of them I having leg fractures in addition to other injuries. Two victims of the wreck were Dep uty Sheriff Edward Baird, of Denvei, and Archibald Whitney, a prisoner whom Baird was taking to the peniten tiary at Canon City. The office was kill ed instantly. Whitney was burned to death. Put for the shackles on his wrists he could have escaped. it was under your administration that the funds of the policyholders were used in the appeal from that ruling, which resulted in the extraordinary decision that denied to them access to the lists. "It is remarkable that in the opinion in that case the court observes with pro phetic vision that these lists 'might prove a valuable asset in unscrupulous bands.' And so they will if you arc permitted to utilize them as you arc now doing. "I am informed that within the past few days you sent out from your head office to your entire agency force throughout the country telegrams urging them to collect proxies. "I have before me one of a number of printed letters and circulars issued from your head office, signed by the cash ier of your company, with an accompany ing form of proxy, addressed to policy holders, inclosing a biography of each of the directors and officers whom you seek to reelect, including yourself. This proxy is to Messrs. John Claflin, Oscar S. Straus and Clarence H. Mackay, of whom biographies are also inclosed, printed at the expense of the policy holders. "If these documents have been sent to every policyholder, the cost to the company of postage alone would be about $.?o,ooo, and the cost of pinting the sta tionety as much more. "These documents are coming to us in great numbers from infuriated policy holders, with the request that our com mittee take some action to prevent your tints wasting the money of the policy holders in the attempt to return yourself to office." Two Big Mortgages Piled. Easton, Pa., (Special) Two big mort gages, given by the Lehigh Valley Trans it Company and amounting to $12,500,000, have been filed in the office of the record er of deeds of Northhampton County. One of the documents to cover the first mortgage bonds, is for $5,000,000, given to the Guarantee Trust Company, of New York, and the other, for the second mortgage bonds, issued for 30 years, is for $7,500,000, given to the Lehigh Val lev Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Allentown. Receiver For Mills. Providence, R. I., (Special). A peti tion in insolvency against the extensive FarwcH Worsted Mills was filed in the L'uited States Circuit Court here by cred itors and a receiver appointed. The lia bilities are estmated at $400,000, with nominal assets in excess of that amount. James Lister, of this city, was named as receiver,- with authority to carry 00 the business. The Farwell Mills corporation is one of the largest engaged in the man ufacture of worsted suitings and trouser ing in New Engand. Fire Panic la Hotel. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). A slight fire resulting from an overheated furnace caused a panic among the 150 guests of the Irondale Hotel, Donora, Pa., about daylight. When the blaze was discovered an alarm was sounded through the hotel and many of the guests, in their fright, dashed from the buildiing into a snow storm, scantily clad and in their bare feet. The fire was controlled with a loss of $3,000. No one was hurt. Coafiraatlea of Ethel Roaserelt Washington, D C. (Special). Pres ident Roosevelt's second daughter, Miss Ethel; Secretary Taft's daughter, Miss Helen, and a daughter of Gen. A. W. Greeley, of the Army, were among a class of about 25 young people who were confirmed at St. John's Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon. Bishop Satterlee ad ministered the rite of confirmation, the presentations to the bishop being made by Rev. Roland Colton Smith, the rector of the church. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary Taft were pres ent at the church. SHIP FOUNDERS WITH 28 SOILS The British King Goes Down in a Hurricane. SHIPS STOOD BY FOR THREE DAYS. Capt. J. C. O'Hagan Loses Ills Lilt la At tempt lo Save Hit Ship Disabled Steam tr Wallowed la Mountainous Seas, While Oil Barrett Slovt la Her Sldet Tw Steamers Lay By Three Days. Boston (Special). Twenty-eight men, including Capt. J. C. O'Hagan, went down with the British steamship British King, which foundered in a terrific gale off Sable Island, 150 miles off shore, Sun day. A terrible story of suffering and terror was related by 18 survivors, brought to Boston on the Lcland liner Bostonian. Eleven more were rescued by the Ger man oil steamship Mannheim. For three days and nights the two steamships lay as near as they could lo their doomed sister before a single rescue could be made. The British King sailed from New York for Antwerp on March 7. Site had a tempestuous trip, and on Wednesday, while in the vicinity of Sable Island, be came disabled. The Mannheim, bound cast, and the Lcyland liner, bound for this port, both answered her signals of distress, but it was impossible for them to render any aid. The sea was like n grouped mass of plunging mountains, and to launch small boats was out of the question. The sea raged for three days, and it was late Friday before it subsided sufficiently for the crew of the British King to put off in boats. Captain O'Hagan lost his life, but bis body was recovered. Boats from the Bostonian and the Mannheim put off to the aid of the small boats from the Brit ish freighter. The crew of the latter had not slept during their battle with the wind and sea and were weak and almost starved. Many of them only closed their eyes when they sank from exhaustion where they stood. Some were swept overboard because they were too weak to hold on. The rescuers from the Bostonian picked up 18 of the survivors and took on board the body of Captain O'Hagan. The rescuers from the German steamship picked up !t of the crew and continued on its eastward journey. Two lifeboats from the Bostonian were crushed to fragments, and the volunteer crews which manned them were thrown into the high-running seas while engag ed in the work of rescue, but all were rescued and taken aboard the Bostonian. When the first lifeboat was lowered from the Bostonian the small craft was swept against the stern of the big ship and destroyed, and several of the seamen were bruised and maimed. Y'ct, despite the boisterous condition of the sea, the volunteers were rescued bl lines thrown out from their steamer. A second attempt to reach the sinking ship was successful, and 13 men, in cluding Captain O'Hajan, were taken from the British King to the Bostonian. Then again a powerful billow carried the life boat against the side of the ship and destroyed it, and the lifesavcrs were thrown into the sea, to be rescued only after an hour's effort by their comrades. Volunteers from the Mannheim, after a heroic battle with the waves, had taken off 11 from the British King, but after this neither of the steamers, in con sequence of the increasing gale, could make an attempt to reach the founder ing freighter. Moreover, darkness fell and it was an utter impossibility to do else but wait for the moonlight to guide them. In the darkness the British King, which was then waterlogged and help less, plunged to the bottom. For three days her captain and crew, working against unconquerable odds, had tried to prevent, or at least postpone, their ship's destruction. On Friday, in the height of the tempest, the dcckload of oil barrels of the British King and all her fittings were carried overboard. HOLD ALL MIDDIES ON A LEVEL. Secretary Bonaparte Sayt There It a Con spiracy. Washington, D. C, (Special). Mid shipmen at Annapolis have been con spiring to prevent a high standard of scholarship, according to the statement of Secretary Bonaparte before the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Brilliancy has been discouraged and a sort or trade union agreement to hold all midshipmen on a dead level, so far as class records are concerned,, has been in existence, so the Secretary of the Navy told the com mittee. There lias been a tendency to place the man who barely passes on a plane with those having higher records, and anything like superior records has been discour aged. Secretary Bonapar'e said that a recent order for the graduation in September of the members of the senior class who have good averages and holding the others until six months later had already affected the combination against high grade? and improved class records. The Secretary of the Navy also dis cussed hazing at length, and objected to amendments to his atvtihazing bill in the Senate which provides that midship men may be tried before court martial for hazing upon their own petition. He said this would be fatal to discipline and urged the passage of his bill for gradu ated punishment without amendment. Sheriff Had to Pay. Knoxville, Tenn., (Special) A com promise was reached in the Federal Court here in the case of the government against J. W. Fox and his bondsmen as sheriff of Knox County. The govern ment sought to recover damages from Fox on account of the escape of Harvey Logan, the convicted Montana train rob ber, who escaped from jail here in June, 1004, while awaiting transportation to the Columbus (O ) prison. The com promise was made on the defendents paying into court $3,000 and costs. Hurled Over a BlufL Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). William Kuhn, driver of a lumber wagon, is dy ing at his home in Homestead from in juries received by being hurled over a 50-foot bluff by a trolley 'car. Kuhn, with a companion, James O'Donnell, was driving on the tracks near McKeesport, when the street car came up behind and struck and wrecked the wagon. Kuhn was thrown from his scat over the side of the bluff. O'Donnell was thrown through the air in the same direction, but caught hold of telegraph pole on the edge of he bluff and saved himself from serious injury. LATEST NEWS IN SHQRTORDER IiOMKSTIi; Dr. Herman Feist, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested in that city charged with the murder of Mrs. Rose Mangrum, a beautiful woman, whose body was found in the Ohio River, at Cairo, 111., six weeks ago. Lewis G. Tcwsbury, who, it is al leged, fled from New York to Mexico leaving behind debts aggregating hun dreds of thousands of dollars, was ar rested in Philadelphia and applied for habeas corpus. Prof. A. II. Patlengill, one. of the University of Michigan's veteran pro fessors, and the faculty representative of Michigan ii all athletic matters for a number of years, died from ln-art dis ease. The town of Tustin, Osceola County, Mich., was partly destroyed by fire, which origiiKited in the Hotel Compton, in which four persons were burned to death. Walter Cathie, a.jed 6b years, a work man, fell from the roof of St. Bartholo mew's Church, New York Crty, and was killed. , Fire destroyed the Dresser Machine Tool Company's plant, in Cincinnati, causing a loss of $100,000; insurance $45,000. A fire in a New York tenement drove 100 people to the snow-covcred roof in their night clothes. Laurence Rogers, the man who told the story upon which the investigation of the alleged plot to assassinate Rev. Dr. Charles 11. Parkhurst, was based, has confessed it all a hoax. Had the officers of the lost steamer British King not misunderstood the sig nals from the steamer Mannheim, the captain of the latter says all on board could have been saved. After impressive ceremonies in the Central Presbyterian Church, in Roches ter, N. Y., the remains of Miss Susan B. Anthony were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery. A conference was held in New York in reference to the opposition of the Walsh railroad properties, the Indiana Southern and the Chicago Southern railroads. Prof. Guillaume Stengel, the husband of Mnic. Sembrich, the prima donna, was seriously injured in an automobile- ac cident in New York. David Sherrick, former auditor of In diana, was found guilty of embezzling $127,000 belonging to the state. A man who gave the name of Grover Cleveland, and who was once in the United States Navy, claimed 225 feet to the top of the flagpole on the Wil liamson Building, New York, and seemed about to jump to the street, when he was brought down by the po lice. Testimony was introduced in the Mrs. Magaret Todd will case to the effect that Attorney Ingcrsoll Lockwood want ed Mrs. Todd cremated, and that he boasted of having two wills alleged to have been made by Mrs. Todd. Mrs. C. E. Williams, a woman of re finement and once wealthy, was arrested at the banking offices of J. Pierpont Mor gan, having threatened to shoot the fi nancier, alleging that the millionaire had mismanaged her estate. Dr. Ellis Dixon, a dentist of Frankfort, Ind., after talking with his Indianapolis fiancee over the telephony, shot himself. She heard the shot and gave the alarm. Surgeons of the Trull Hospital, Bid deford, Me., operated with success on a patient while firemen were extinguishing a blaze in the institution. Railroads entering Indianapolis have acquired 2.460 acres of land for a model railroad city. Major General Wood says he assumes full responsibility for the fight against the Moros, and that women and children were only killed by force of necessity, many of the women fighting as desper ately as the men. The stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to issue stock to acquire additional railroad lines. Royal Phelps Carroll was elected a vice president of the Maryland Society of New York. A posse of 100 is chasing the Wfck cliffc brothers and a band of Indians who attacked six United States marshals in Indjjn Territory. IORK1GN The Hungarian Council of Ministers issued a decree dissolving the execution cira:nirtce of the Coalition party, strik ing a severe blow to the antigovernment forces. An airship company, to construct and experiment with war craft, has been formed in Berlin. The new census of Germany shows a population of 60,605,183. The Japanese Railways Nationaliza tion Bill passed the Japanese House of Representatives. It will take $250,000,000 to buy the railways. Workmen in the many Russian fac tories have refused to participate in the election for delegates to the National Assembly. The Czar has instructed Premier Witte to prepare a bill for presentation to the National Assembly providing for the equality of the Jews. Russian political prisioncrs at Warsaw are said to have been subjected to hor rible tortures to force them to sign con fessions of guilt. Francis Kossuth, the Hungarian lead er, is seriously ill with heart trouble. ' Forty revolutionsts and a number of bombs have been seized in Moscow. Governor General Rennenkampff issued a proclamation declaring that if an at tempt is made on his life 600 revolution ists will be executed. , llenning, a marriage broker, wanted in various parts of Germany for swindling and murder, was captured at Stettin after a bard fight. 1 A complete deadlock prevails in the Moroccan conference between the. French and German delegates. The Citizen's National League, a new English party, was organized to combat all forms of socialism and municipal ex travagance. The original draft of Lord Nelson's historic "general memorandum" was sold at public auction in London for $18,000. Ivan Kulikoff, the assassin of the gov ernor of Minsk, Russia, was publicly hanged and his execution was bungled. The battleship Ohio, with Admiral Train on board, arrived at Manilla. Xhe officers of a guard regiment at St. Petersburg upon receiving orders to go to the Baltic provinces to "pacify" the country resigned in a body. Three villages on Savoii Island, Sa moan group, have been destroyed by a volcano eruption. A stream of molten lava stretches five miles out to sea, Arthur Clavcll Salter, a Unionist, was elected to the House of Commons at a bye-election, succeeding A. T. Jeffreys, a Conservative. More than 70,000 people have been arrested in Russia since the government entered upon the campaign against the revolutionists. THE REVOLUTIONISTS ARE TORTURED Their Hair frilled Out and Soles of Feet Cut. BXL FOR PRESENTATION TO ASSEMBLY Compelled to Confess lo Warsaw Chief ot Police Many Priests Chosen aa Delegate! to the Assembly The Czir Instructs Pre mier Witte to Prepart t Bill Providing for Equality of the Jews. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). Profess or Courtcnay a member of the Academy of Science, in an open letter describes the horrible tortures to which he asserts the political prisoners at Warsaw were subjected by Chief of Police Grcun. He cites as examples two cases in which prisoners were starved and on four con secutive nights were leaten with clubs, jumped on, their hair pulled out by the roots and the soles of their feet cut X ith knives until they signed statements con fessing their guilt. The "League of the Russian People" and other reactionary organizations claiming to represent half a million mem bers have presented an address to Minis ter of War Rudiger thanking the troops for their work in restoring order and re questing that it be communicated to the soldiers throughout the empire. Out of the violent anti-Semitic agita ton of the rcacionists, which enabed Pre mier Wilte and the Liberal section of the Cabinet to force Intcror Minister Durnovo to issue instructions to the pro vincial authorities to prevent massacres and prosecute the persons guilty of in stigating them, may come unexpected good to the members of the oppressed race. The entire Jewish question has been raised it) acme form and may be settled forthwith, The Emperor is said to be amazed at the revelations made by the Jewish deputation which the Pre mier received in audience March 7, and to have informed Count Witte that it was urgently necessary to settle the ques tion immediately. Count Witte, who has steadily supported the plea for equal rights for the Jew, but who heretofore had contended that it was a matter for the national assembly to settle, is un derstood to have talked quite bluntly to the Emperor regarding the innumerable difficulties which bis opponents were raising on this and other questions, and he is said to have gone to the extent of requesting permission to resign the premiership. The Emperor, it is added, would not listen to it, insisting that Count Witte must remain in office and at the same time instructing him to prepare a project providing for the equality of the Jews for presentation to the national assembly. Such a bill according the Jews equality except in eligibility to positions in the official and military services is now said to have been prepared. Leading Jews of the empire, like Baron Gunsburg, however, knowing full well the hostilities of a large class of Russians to the Jews and fearing an adverse de cision, which would only further preju dice the position of their co-religionists, are opposed to the submission of the question to the assembly. They main tain that the manifesto of October 30 specifically declared that all subjects were equal before the law; that the ques tion is de jure, already settled, and that it is the duty of the government to im mediately protect the Jews in the exer cise of full rights. MEN CRUSHED BV ROOF. Three Firemen Killed and Nine In Jured. Camden, N. J., (Special). Three fire men were killed and nine others serious ly injured at a fire which destroyed the old Sixth Regiment Armory, at Bridge and West Streets, in this city. The fire started in the boiler room of the armory building, and quickly spread to all parts of the structure. About a dozen firemen were ordered into the burning building with a line of hose, and were making good progress in fight ing the flames when they were warned by Fireman Harry Dease that the roof was giving away. Before the men could heed the warning the great expanse of roof fell, burying Dease and the others under it.- Shields, Hillman and Jobes were crushed to death, but the others managed to follow the line of hose and escaped, after most of them had been seriously lacerated and burned. The in jured were removed to Cooper Hospital. Cashier Oela Six Years. Buffalo, N. Y., (Special). Fred. R. Green, former cashier of the defunct F'redonia National Bank, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in Au burn prison. Green was indicted on 35 counts, charging abstraction, embezzle ment and false entry in connection with the funds and books of the broken bank. He was arrested on an alleged false en try relative to the Forestville State Bank, which also failed. Shut Down the Works. Youngistown, O., (Special). Because one man was refused admission to the works of the Valley plant of the Re public Iron and Steel Company, after a brief absence, 60 puddlers and helpers are on strike. As a result the entire con cern was closed down this afternoon, throwing 1,000 men out of employment. The company assert that it is a violation of their agreement with the Amalgamated Association for employes to leave the plant between heats. C E. Unions Number 67,512. Boston (Special). The total number of Christian Endeavor societies through out the world is 67,513 according to re ports of officers of the World's Chris tian Endeavor Union, made public here. Of these, 42,250 are in the United States; 10,77a in Great Britain and Ireland ; 4,295 in Canada; 6i in India and lesser numbers in other countries. The total receipts of the World's Union for the last year were $0,241, and balance in the treasury is $146. 8. It Kaulfmao Dead. Washington, D. C, (Special). S. H. Kauffman, president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company, president of the Corcoral Gallery of Art, a former pres ident of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' Association, and one of the best known citizen of Ibis city, died at his home here early Wednesday morning. He was born in Wayne County, O., April 30, 1829. Mr. Kauffman was a news paper publisher In Ohio during the fifties. He was a member of numerous clubs in this and other cities. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. The Canning Industry. A bulletin issued by the Census Bureau giving a preliminary summary of the sta tistics for the preserving and canning in dustries in the United States for the calendar year 1904 says there has been a large increase in the business. There was a slight apparent decrease in the numberof wage-earners, which thebulletii says is due largely to a considerable num ber being emplayed in fish canneries un der a contract system, where no record of the number was kept. Neither were fishermen included in the census. In 1904 there were 2,687 establish ments, with a total capital of $6u,589,,li6 an increase in the latter figures over loot of 45 per cent. The number of wage earners for 1004 is given at 50,258 a; against 51,955 for igoo, but the wage' paid in 1004 were $14,154.7.10, as ngaiu-si $12,759,459 for 1900, while the miscellan eous expenses for 1904 were $8,544,497 an increase of 160 per cent, over 1900 The total produrt for 1004, exclusive o' fruits and vegetables, fish and oyslen nmnufdcturcrcd by establishments classi lied under another head, valued at $t. 00,1,201, was $107,5.14.464, an increase o: 33 per cent. For Better Election Laws. Charles R. Russell, of Columbus, Ga. chairman of the Committee on Privilege? and Election of the Georgia legislature discussed with the President the aetior of the conference just held in New Yorl on the election laws of the United Stales The object of the conference was tin study and discussion of primary elcctioi laws, with a view to the adoption of r primary election system in all states o' the Union. Mr. Russell was appointed with Josiah Quincy, of Boston, and Mr Garfield, of New York, a cpmmittcc tc draft a scheme for a permanent organi zation,, which should be national in it; scope. The President manifested a deer interest in the work. Money For Famine Sullirert. Assistant Secretary Charles Hallair, Keep, treasurer of the National Red Cross Society, cabled to Japan, through the State Department, additional con tributions to the famine fund amounting to $5,000 making a total so far cabled of $50,000. The urgent appeal sent out sometime ago by President Rooscvell and the efforts being made by the officer; of the National Red Cross Society arc resulting in largely increased contribu tion from all sections of the country. To Peosloo Aged Letter-carriers. Representative Gill introduced a bill in the House which provides for the pen sioning of aged letter-carriers. The bill provides that when a letter-carrier has reached the age of 70 years, after having served 40 years, he shall be retired and pensioned at 80 per cent, of his salary. The bill was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post roads. For Safety Sake. Senator Lafolette introduced a bill making it the duty of the Interstate Com merce Commission to prescribe the max imum number of hours above which a common carrier shall not require or per mit employes to remain on duty. The purpose of the bill is to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon railroads. President Roosevelt has announced that .while seevral names, including that of Secretary Taft, have been under con sideration in conncctbn with the suc cessorship to Justice Brown, no decision has been reached. r Col. William Elliott, of Beaufort, S. C, has been selected by Secretary Taft to be a commissioner to mark the graves of Confederate soldiers who died in Northern prisons. Representative Shackelford made an attack on Speaker Cannon in the House, declaring the 'Speaker , an "enthroned despot." Secretary Root has been invited to visit Valparaiso, Chili, on his coming trip to the Rio conference. A new building to cost $1,200,000 is proposed for the Geological Survey De partment. Capt. Charles C. Crcsson, U. S. N., died at San Antonio, Tex. The court of inquiry decided that no one was to blame for the mixup of the battleships while Admiral Evans' squad ron was leaving New York harbor last January. Severe criticism of the recent battle in the Philippines was made by Mr. Jones, of Virginia, in the House, and by Mr. Bacon, in the Senate. The President withdrew the nomi nation of John Embry to be United States attorney for Oklahoma pending an investigation of charges, The Senate and House passed a joint resolution amending the Tillman-Gillespie resolution for investigating railroads and monopolies. A delegation of cement manufacturers urged upon the President the use of American cement in the construction of the Panama Canal. Alfred Noble, a New York engineer, testified before the Senate committee in favor of a lock canal at Panama. The Senate has under consideration a bid fur the government of the canal zone. The Senate passed a resolution, calling upon the Secretary of War to send to lite Senate copies of all reports on the recent attack by United States troops on Mount Dajo, Jolo Islunds. Prof. William Barclay Parsons con cluded his testimony before the Senate Committee on Intcroceanic Canals in support of the majority report of the Board of Consulting Engineers. The Consular Reform Convention adopted a memorial to Congress urg ing the adoption of the Lodge bill with out amendment. Senator Rayner delivered a set speech in the Senate on the Railroad- Rate Bill and became involved in colloquies with several associates. Secretary Bonaparte is perfecting the arrangements for the ceremonies attend ing the interment of Paul Jones' body at Annapolis. The minority report of the House committee attacks the propriety of the Prue Food Bill as a federal measure. Corporal Taner, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., wrote a letter to Chairman Tawney, of the House" Committee, pro testing against the bill to reduce the pay of federal employes after they have at tained the age of 65. , The Senate passed a bill to punish gov ernment officials for the premature di vulgence of secret information. Williarn Barclay Parsons testified be fore the Senate committee in opposition to ' lock canal at Panama. The House Committee on Military Af. fairs decided to report favorably the Hull bill appropriating 'fjoo.ooo for a government powder factory, TOE KEYSTONE STATE The Latest Pennsylvania Newt Told la Short Order. High jinks occurred at the home of Mrs. Agnes Strunk, at Reading, while the was visiting relatives in Brooklyn over Sunday, As a result the following ?:uests of her husband were held in bail or court after a hearing before Alder man Koch today on a charge of malicious mischief: Clara Howell, Lottie Reitcr, Howard Ravel, Walter Hart, John Sny der and Harry Tyack. Irvin Keplcy, Kate Keplcy, Charles Lot, William Sny der, Emma Becker and Eva Wcisbrod were discharged for lack of .evidence. Mrs. Strunk charged that her husband gave a party during her absence and that when she came home she found costly furniture in the parlor, sitting room and dining-room damaged and or naments ruined. The will of Dr. D. D. Richardson, late resident physician at the State Hos pital for the Insane, was probated at Norristown. He devises his estate of $10,000 and upwards to his daughter, Clara Richardson, who qualified as ex ecutrix. She also receives a $5,000 in surance policy. Two big mortgages, given by the Lehigh Valley Transit Company and amounting to $12,500,000, have been filed of record in the office of Recorder of deeds of Northampton County. One of the docu ments, to cover the first bonds, is for $5,000,000, given to the Guarantee Trust Company, of New York. The other, for the second bonds, is for $7,500,000, given to the Lehigh Valley Trust & Safe Deposit Company, of Allentown. Congressman Reynolds has appointed Charles A. Pownall, son of Dr. H. W. Pownall, of Tyrone, a naval cadet. He is to report April 27 at Annapolis. Carey Heaton, a veteran of the Civil War, who served with distinction in Company B, Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died at his home in Shenan doah. He was the father of a large and well-known family and a prominent citi zen. He was 69 years of age. One hun'dred young women of Wilkes Barre, divided into committees of ten, were appointed by the Young Women's Christian Association, to solicit subscrip tions in the effort to raise $100,000, which is to be used for the erection of a permanent home for the organization. They are to raise the money by sell ing shares at 25 cents and already a pledge of $10,000 has been given by a public-spirited citizen. The association has been established for thirteen years and has a large membership. Attorney General Carson furnished State Veterinarian Pearson with a written opinion to the effect that the State Live Slock Sanitary Board has the authority to condemn and order the destruction of a horse afflicted with glanders, the owner of which refuses to enter into any agreement as to the value of the animal or to designate an ap praiser to represent him. Judge Wilson finished the hearing of the contests against the three wholesale liquor license applicants at Clarion, and at once handed down his order refusing to grant any such license in that county. Of the three retail applications held over he granted the one in Shippcnville. lie also refused the application of the Morningside Distillery for a distiller's license; his decision on which he held from yesterday. State Fish Commissioner Median, in his annual report, which was transmitted to Governor Pennypacker, says that the commercial fishing in Pennsylvania dur ing the last year aggregated over $800, 000, of which $100,000 was for shad caught in the Susquehanna River, and .$424,500 fpr shad caught in the Dela ware River. The German crab industry netted about $.100,000; eels, $22,500, and brook trout, $20,461. Mr. Meehan re-' commends that some steps be taken to prevent American fishermen from en-1 croaching on Canadian waters and says it serves them right when they are ar-j rested by the Canadian authorities and their boats and tackle confiscated. William Morgan, of West Pittston, has been punished for manufacturing a story that he had been waylaid, beaten and robbed and telling a newspaper all the details. . The police have investi gated and upon learning that the whole story was a fabrication a Pittston news-j paper in which it was published had Mor gan arrested. He made an affidavit that the statement was false in every parti cular and after a severe reprimand by Justice of the Peace Ehret was released. Dr. D. K. Smith, aged 40, who until! three years ago resided in Altoona, died! of tuberculosis at Colorado Springs. He was prominent in Junior Order United American Mechanics. Following the placing of the responsi bility by the Coroner's Jury upon the Philadelphia & Reading Coal'fc Iron Co., Mrs. Elizabeth Bambrick, of Pottsville, brought suit against that corporation for $10,000 as damages, because her son, Slartin F. Bambrick fell down the Pine Knot Shaft at Coal Castle and was killed. Frank Rublewski, 35 years old was crushed to death by a fall of roof rock in the Primrose Colliery, near Mahanoy City. This makes the third fatality at this mine in the last ten days. Henry J. Fares and wife, aged resi dents of Kinderhook, Lancaster County, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anni versary by holding a family reunion. Arrangements are now being formu lated to organize a Camp of Sons of Veterans in Darby Borough. Past Junior! Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans Charles C. Morton, district or-' ganizer for Delaware County and thej lower half of Chester County, has made several trips to the bsrough in an effort, to secure the iiTies of enough appli-! cants to form a camp. ' At a meeting of the Elsie Rebekah, I-odgc, No. 304, Independent Order Odd ' Fellows, in Odd Fellow's Hall, Darby,' eight new candidates were named for membership. The ordor is not a yeerj old and has a membership of teventy.j A class of 125 new members was taken into the Order of the Modern vVoodmen in York.. The degree team of the Harrisburg Camp did the work for local organization. The Harrisburg de gree team comprised seventeen members and was under the command of Captain C. N. Folflcy and Lieutenant H. S.1 Kantz. . Three alarms of Fire in Bethle hem and South Bethlehem on Sun day ''caused no Ktfle. excitement.- A blaze .at the Washington House, of un known origin, did slight' damage. The storage of the South Bethlehem Supply Company was destroyed by fire. The, third alarm was false, caused by two Hungarians mistaking an alarm box for a letter box. ! Three thousand pigeoni were burned and a lost of $10,000 sustained when an incendiary fire destroyed the buildings of the Keystone Squab Company near Washington, last midnight. But little insurance waa carried.
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