I son HAS ANOTHER WRECK Tin Killed and Four Injured at Danville. FLAGMAN BLAMED FOE ACCIDENT. Similar to the Disaster at Lawyer Which Resulted in the Death of Freai drat Spencer and Six Others En ffineer Kinney and Brakeman King Met Instant Death. Danville, Va. (Special). Follow in k close upon the disaster of Law yer, 57 miles from here, on Thanks Riving Day, which resulted In the death of President Samuel Spencer ot the Southern Railway, and six others, another wreck horror on the Southern occurred In the railway yards here early Saturday morning. Two persons met instant death, an other was fatally wounded and three others were Injured. The accident happened about 4 o clock, when northbound train No. 34, a mixed passenger and Pullman train of about 10 coaches, crashed into No. 82, a freight train of 30 cars, which was standing on the main line. All of the passengers es raped injury of any consequence, though all were shaken up. The list of the dead comprises En gineer George C. Kinney, of Thomas ville, N. C, and Brakeman V. B. King, of Danville, Va. Robert Ford, the negro fireman, sustained Injuries which will no doubt result In his death. The following is a list of the ser iously Injured, who were taken to the General Hospital here: O. P. Mull, of Columbia, S. C flagman; H. M. Patterson, of Chatham, Va., brakeman; Robert Ford, colored, fireman, and O. O. Mailer, of Wash ington, postal clerk. Both of the trains were running behind time, and the freight train, after passing the block station, three miles south of here, was detained in the yards on account of other trains. The freight had been stand ing on the main line for nearly an hour when No. 34 ra.ne around the curve at a rate of about 25 miles an hour. The engine plowed through the caboose of the freight, and like a giant bull hurled It over its head. Knglneer Kinuey stuck to his post and was instantly killed. Fifty yards above the scene of the accident the negro fireman, realizing what was going to happen, jumped from the locomotive and landed on the ground, unconscious. As soon as the collision occurred fire followed. Four cars were burn ed up and other damaged by the flames. The Are department was called out, and after several hours had the flames under control. Next to the engine on No. 34 was the postal car, which was demolished, and a number of clerks In It were injured. The injured clerks left on a northbound train, and their injuries are not regarded as serious. All of the passengers In the Pull man and day coaches escaped. The body of Engineer Kinney was found pinned under the wrecked en gine, it was not mangled, and Indi cations showed that he had been scalded to death by the steam es caping from the boiler. The death of W. B. King, who was on the caboose of the wrecked freight train, was frightful. King' was learning the business of rail road brakeman, and his bojy was burned to a crisp. Only the body from the legs to the neck was ex tricated from the wreckage, and this was merely a pile of ashes and co agulated blood. The head, arms and legs were missing, and the ashes was placed In a mail bag and carried to an undertaker's shop. KILLED II V AN AUTO. Au Aged Italian Woman Dies As She Predicted. New York (Special). In the par lor of her little four-room flat, two flights up In the tenement house at 328 W. Twenty-sixth Street, "Grand ma" Sera fin a Macalsko was laid out Sunday afternoon to begin her long sleep. "Grandma," as everybody In the neighborhood called her, was one year less than 90. Until two days ago she went up and down stairs and about the neighborhood as spry as n woman one-third her age. She had one dread. "Some day I will try to cross the street and an automobilu will kill me," she said often. "In Italy wo had no such things when I was young and happy, but just before 1 came over threo years ago. they had them there, too. Why should men and women rush like mad, most of tbern with nothing much to do when tliey get there?" Friday afternoon she put her daughter's baby to sleep and started out for a short visit to a son nearby. JuBt as she got in front of the house, and about half way across the street, an electric brougham, running fust, pulled around the corner and bore down upon her. She stood still In her terror. The heavy car hit her and threw her 15 feet right into the doorway of the house where she had lived. She never regained conscious ness, and lied at lu o'clock Sunday morning. "She was never 111 a day, and yet she was killed, as she said, by an automobile," said the daughter, Franceses. Captain And Crew Rescued. Nassau, N. P. (Special). Captain Frederlcksen, of the Norwegian bark Wellington, his wife and 15 mem bers of the crew of the vessel, were rescued December 3, in an exhaust ed condition, by the Elder-Dempster steamer Sokoto, in latitude 35 north, longitude 65 west. The Wellington which sailed from Gulf port. Miss., November 12, with a cargo of lum ber for Pesario, Argentina, was waer-loggbJ when deserted. The 8t'koto will take the rescued per rons to Havana. Vuiiui(l On Insurance CumpunicN. .Vashivlle, Tenn. (Special). State Commissioner of insurance Folk sent telegrams to the Mutual and the New York Life Insurance Companies giving them 10 days, in which to Tefiind certain amounts of policy holders' money. The Mutual, he charges, used several thousand dol lars as compensation and expenses for agents to electioneer for the ad ministration ticket and elteg the evi dence. To New York Life officials 10 days are given to cover Into its treasury money spent for printing or circulating 800,000 administration ballots. THE NEWS Of THE WEEK. Domestic The Brotherhood of Trainmen will confer with General Manager Peck, of Pennsylvania lines west, about the 23 articles refused them by the gen eral superintendents. The revenue cutters Mohawk and Oresham pulled the barkentlne Bon ny Doon off Great Round Shoal, near Vineyard Haven, and landed the crew. The strike of 800 men of the Read ing Iron Company, which began five months ago, has ended by the men getting an advance of 12 per rent. In the Shea trial, Chicago, William Kelly, former secretary of the Coal Teamsters' Union, who entered a plea of guilty, was a witness. An explosion of gas in the Kidney vein of the Buttonwood Colliery at Wllkes-Barre, Pa., killed two and seriously Injured several others. Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, se cured a writ of attachment in New York against the property of Miss Norma L. Munroe for $42,000. John Harsen Rhodes, president of the Greenwich Savings Bank and a prominent financier of New York, Is dead at the age of 67. Herbert Gregerson, exchange tel ler of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank In Chicago, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Banker Jacob Schiff calls the high Interest charged in Wall Street on call loans barbarous and destructive to finance. Sir Harry Eugene Robinson, of a nolle English family, has entered the United States Navy as a mess attend ant. Lawyer Patrick, convicted of mur der in New York is said to have ap plied for a commutation of sentence. Former Governor George W. Hen- dee, of Vermont, died at his home, Morrlsville, aged 74 years. Rear Admiral Peter Asserson, U. S. N., retired, died in Brooklyn at the age of 66. The operators In charge of the block on which the Southern train wreck occurred Thanksgiving Day- contradict each other In their state ments as to the cause of the Bmash- Fearing that Chester E. Gillette. found guilty of the murder of Grace Brown, plans to end his life, the gas stove has been taken from his cell, and an extra guard will accom pany him to Auburn prison. counsel for Harry K. Thaw has taken action which abolishes the proposition to appomt a commission to go outside of New York State for evidence in the case. W. W. Finley, who began his rail road career as a stenographer, has been chosen president of the South ern Railway to succeed Samuel Spencer. A man supposed to be Georee A. Klmmel, missing cashier of the Ar kansas Bank, has been found In an asylum at White Plains, N. Y. The Cincinnati - Chicago Limited train on the Monon Railroad was derailed two miles north of Frank fort, Ind., and 18 persons injured. Andrew Carnegie formally pre sented the deeds for a lake three and one-half miles long to Princeton Un iversity. Eight young wlmen were burned by an explosion of thousands of matches in a factory at Indianapolis. Allotments ot land will make every member of the Osage tribe of Indians worth $50,000. Two women were arrested in Chi cago charged with a score or more of flat burglaries. Elias Aslel, a New York broker. was beaten Insensible by burglars in his home. Forty-seven railroads of the West are considering raises in wages for employes. Foreign. M. Jaures, the French Socialist leader In the Chamber of Deputies, warned the government that In the proceedings toward Morocco it was embarking on a dangerous adventure, but the Chamber, by 457 to 56, voted confidence. When Count Castellane rose to make a speech, half the depu ties left the chamber. The British Foreign Secretary In formed Parliament that he had no Information that, any arrangement had been made under which German nierchant vessels would be trans ferred to the American flag In the event of a war involving Germany. A census of the German Empire to December 31, 1905, shows the po pulation to have been 60,641,278, compared with 56,367,178 in 1900, an Increase of 7.6 per cent. The Agricultural Chamber of West Prussia adopted resolutions em powering its executive committee to import Chinese as farm laborers. London financiers believe that the report of Secretary Shaw means that something will be done to relieve the financial situation. A dozen insurgent leaders of San Domingo were attacked by the gov ernment forces and Perico la Salle killed. The Yiulln collection of SO, 000 vol umes on Russia has been bought, for the Congressional Library at Wash ington. A widespread conspiracy against the Ecuadoran government has been discovered In Guayaquil. Japanese newspapers eulogize Pres ident Roosevelt's attitude toward them in his message. English newspapers announce that Borne of the Lloyds are Insuring against war between Russia and Ja pan In 1907 at nve guineas per cent. It Is reported that Count BonI de Castellane will marry Madame Lo telller, twice married and twice di vorced and worth $15,000,000. Gerald Lowther Is mentioned as a possible successor to Sir Mortimer Dnrund as British umbassador to the United States. Cottonseed and cottonseed oil, largely Imported from America, are threatened with almost prohibitory duties In France. The American minister, Mr. Gum mere, arrived at Tangier from Fez, by way of El Aralh, on the steamer Saida. French newspapers comment fav orably on the appointment of Henry White as ambassador to France. Police Inspector Sheremetleff was mortally wounded in St. Petersburg by a Terrorist, who then killed him self. King Edward Is trying to prevent the Marlborough divorce scandal from being aired In the divorce court. Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald secured a divorce from her husband, a rich Irish landlord In Dublin, Ireland. Eleven thousand seamen on the Black Sea are out on strike and shipping is tied up. Charles Wyndham, the actor, has announced his forthcoming retire ment from the stage. TERRIBLE FATE OF FOUR CORNELL MEN Athletes Risk Lives To Save Their Comrades. SEVERAL ARE SEVERELY BURNED. One of Finest Fraternity Houses in the World Destroyed The Unl versity and Town of Ithaca in Mourning Fire Breaks Out Early in the Morning. Ithaca, N. Y. (Special). Cornell University and the city of Ithaca are paralyzed by the worst catastrophe which has ever occurred in this com munity. By the burning of the Chi Psl Fraternity lodge at an early hour in the morning, seven lives were lost, $200,000 worth of property was de stroyed and the finest fraternity house In the world was practically demolished. Seven men are killed. Six of them died almost Immediately; the other lingered until evening. The dead Bre; William Homes Nichols, of Chica go, 111., a member of the senior class of Cornell University, and a son of a wealthy commission merchant In Chi cago. He was a member of many clubs and societies and an editor of the Cornelllan, which Is the college annual. A charred body has been found in the ruins, but It Is toot yet known whether It is his or that of Frederick W. Greele, of East Orange, N. J., who also perished in the flames. Oliver LeRoy Schmuck, of Han over, Pa., a senior in Cornell Univer sity, a member of many clubs and very popular among hiB classmates. He died in the Cornell Infirmary within a few hours after the death of his roommate, Nichols. Frederick W. Greele, of East Or ange, N. J., a member of the fresh man class. His body has not yet been recovered. James McCutcheon, of Pittsburg, Pa., a member of the sophomore class, substitute halfback on the Cor nell football team and very popular among his classmates. The city of Ithaca has lost three gallant firemen Alfred C. Robinson, an attorney and a member of the vol unteer fire department; John Rum sey, son of a prominent hardware merchant and a member of the vol unteer Are company, and Estey J. Landon, foreman of the Empire State Furnishing Company and a member of the volunteer fire department. All of these men were killed by the fall ing of the north wall of the building while they were engaged In the act of stretching a hose on that Bide. Just how the fire started will pro bably remain a mystery, but at 3.30 A. M., S. S. Decamp, of New York City, a sophomore of Cornell and a member of the Chi Psl Fraternity, was awakened by the smell of smoke. He rushed tothe door of his room.but found his escape cut off. Running to the window, he slid down the vines and reached the ground in safe ty. He ran to the nearby fraternity houses and sent out the alarm. It was fully 30 minutes after the fire had started before the department reached the Bcene. The campus fire facilities were utterly inadequate, and it remained for the city com panies to make an attempt to check the flames, but it was too late. DEATH WIPES OUT FAMILY. Demise Of Father And Tour Children Followed Uy Mother. Chicago (Special). Mrs. Rose Vrzal, of 153 West One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Street committed sui cide because, it Is believed, of ru mors circulated regarding the num erous deaths in her immediate fami ly within the last ten months. Her husband, Martin Vrzal, died, nnd then, within nine months, her four children died, the cause of each death being given by the attending physician as "stomach trouble." An anonymous telephone message was sent to the police department saying it was advisable that an In vestigation be made, as all the mem bers of the family were Insured a Bhort time before death. An Investi gation was commenced, but it de veloped nothing definite. It 1b be lieved by the police that either de spondency over the deaths of her family or dread of the Investigation caused Mrs. yrzal to take her life. Late on the" strength of statements made by Mrs. Emma Niemann, daugh ter of Mr. Vrzal, the police arretftod Hermann Bllleck, said to be a fortune teller and hypnotist. LOWER JAW KNOCKED OFF, Man, Unable To Write, Cannot Tell How He Wo Mutilated. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). Caspar Schoflon, 30 years old, was brought to a hospital here from Bakerton, a suburb, where he was found lying on the street. Part of the man's lower jaw was missing, the upper Jaw bad ly splintered and the base of his tongue lacerated. Schofon is very weak from loss of blood, and how he was wounded Is a mystery. The hospital physicians say his injuries are such that he will never be able to talk, and all efforts to have the man write have been futile. The po lice authorities say Schofon, who Is a foreigner, never learned to write, and will be unable to explain his in juries until he Is taught to write, if he should recover. Strike Of Sailors. Genoa (Special). The greatest alarm is being felt here over the de cision of the shipowners to suspend the Transatlantic servlce.owing to the strike of the seamen. Over 4,000 emigrants who had booked passage are being boarded and lodged at the expense of the city officials, who de sire to prevent bloodshed. The gen eral public la demanding that the government Intervene in the strike situation. A California Khuke. San Luis Obispo, Cal. (Special). At 10.40 o'clock P. M this city ex perienced an earthquake which last ed more than 30 seconds. The shock was from north to south. Half an hour later a second shock was felt, but was not so pronounced as the first. The earthquake also was felt at Santa Maria, Guadaloupe, Cayucoa and Cambria. At the latter ilace articles were shaken from ihelvea. Ne perceptible damage was justalncd here. AT THE NATION S CAPITAL Soma Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. The Ship Subsidy. General Orosvenor, chairman of the House Committee of Merchant Marine and Fisheries and most ar dent of ship subsidy advocates, took the first step to compromise with the opposition, which has hitherto been successful in holding up the Senate measure In the committee. General Grosvenor announced to the committee that he had prepared important amendments to the Senate Subsidy Bill. It makes clear that the subsidies are to be applied only to lines from the South Atlantic Const to South American republics, and from the Pacific Coast to the Orient.. The subsidy for the South African line is eliminated, also the one for the short line on the Northern Paci fic to the Canadian Coast. The committee will meet again Thursday to consider the Grosvenor amendments. These propositions in a degree meet with the objections of Speaker Cannon and Representative Watson, of Indiana. The latter pre vented action on the matter in the last session. Now he declares that he will favor a bill providing subsi dies for South American lines and not more than two lines to the Philip pines. Such a proposition, he be lieves, will pass the House. This Is as far as the Speaker will go, accord ing to the subsidy authorities. Transport Reserve Fleet. With a view to securing an ade quate transport reserve fleet for the United States Army, General Hum phrey, in his annual report, stales that the department might advantag eously beglven authority of law, to gether with an adequate appropria tion, to take options for the charter of American vessels suitable for transports, paying therefor a reason able yearly rate, fixing the charter price if called into service, and giv ing the department first right to the sevice of such vessels when needed. Looking For A Lunil)or Trust. Senator Kittredge wants an Inquiry Into the operation of the manufac turing Interests of the United States. In a resolution which he presented he asks that the Secretary of Com merce and Labor be directed to con duct an exhaustive Investigation with a view of discovering the cause of the present high prices of lumber, and particularly to discover whether a trust exists. Meat Ilill Amendment. Senator Beveridge introduced a bill to amend the meat inspection act by requiring that the cost of Inspec tion shall be paid by the packers. Another amendment requires that the date of Inspection and packing or canning shall be placed upon each package. New Child Labor Law Bill. Senator Lodge introduced a bill designed to prevent the employment of child labor by prohibiting inter state commerce in any article In the production of which a child under 14 years of age has been employed and the prohibition extends to chil dren under 16 years of age who can not read and write. The violation of the law is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of $500 and im prisonment for one year. Senator Beveridge introduced a bill very similar in its provisions. Appeals In Criminal Cases. Chairman Clark, of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, was au thorized by the committee to request the return to it of the bill passed by the Senate last session which gives the government the right of appeal on questions of law In criminal cases. This is a measure which the Presi dent urges as being very necessary to strengthen the hands of the gov ernment in the anti-trust cases. Attacking the Panama Canal pro ject. Senator Morgan says the United States was in the shipping business under the sea flag of a dummy cor poration. The report of the Paymaster Gen eral of the Navy shows that it cost $19,604,749 to keep the warships in commission during the past year. Mrs. Helen L. Sewell, widow of the former New Jersey Benator, died suddenly of heart disease. The House defeated the Pilotage Bill by a vote ot 110 to 164. President Roosevelt commuted to life Imprisonment the sentence of death passed upon Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer, negroes, who mutinied and killed the officers and part of the crew of the schooner Harry Berwlnd. The bill permitting national bank ing associations to make loans on real estate as security and limiting the amount of such loans passed the House. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations made a report favoring the ratification of the Algcclras Treaty regarding Morocco. The House Committee on Banking and Currency held a meeting prepar atory to framing a bill for a more elastic currency. Consideration of the Fortifications Appropriation Bill was begun by a subcommittee of the House Com mittee on Appropriations. The President nominated W. Mor gan Shuster, of the District of Col umbia, to be secretary of instruction In the Philippines. The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice that he will anticipate Interest without rebate amounting to $12,000,000. Cotton .Mills Raise Wages. Providence, R. I. (Special). An advance in wages varying from 5 to 10 por cent, will be made in the cotton mills of Rhode Island this week. About 20,000 operatives will be affected, and In addition, it Is un derstood, the pay of about 5,000 mill hands In Massachusetts and Connec ticut factories controlled by Provi dence officers will be raised to cor respond with the schedules in this etute. Put Crowe In Trouble, Council ' 11 luffs, la. (Special). Pat Crowe, whose recent trial and acquittal of the charge of robbing A. E. Cuduhy, the millionaire pack er, of $25,000 through the kidnap ping of the latter'a son gave hi in wide notoriety, will be placed ton trial on a charge of robbing a street car crew in Council Bluffs last sum mer, Ambassador and Mrs. Whltela'w Rold sailed from England for New York. Several severe earthquake shocks were felt in the West Indies. EXPLOSION IN A FACTORY TOWN Eleven Persons Hurt, Fourteen Build ings Burned. LOSSES OVER HALF A MILLION. Boiler Bursts, Shattering the Four story Factory of the . J. Harvey Shoe Company, Lynn, Mass Stair ways and Fire Escapes Hold Until Most of the Employes Escape. Lynn, Mass. (Special). The ex plosion of a boiler in the four-story factory building of the P. J. Harney Shoe Manufacturing Company, on Alley Street, and the fire which im mediately followed destroyed 14 buildings In the West Lynn manufac turing district, causing a total loss estimated at about $520,000. Eleven persons were injured, one, Miss Cclia Tradenburg, an operative in one of the burned factories, being in a critical condition at a hospital. In addition to the direct loss the shoe manufacturers will suffer se verely from the Interruption to their Christmas business. The properties destroyed and dam aged are: P. J. Harnpy Shoo Company. Tufts fr Friedman Shoe Company. H. P. Hood Creamery. Boston and Maine West Lynn Rail road Station. Jacobs Leather Stock Company. M. J. Worthley Shoe Company. Eight dwellings. The explosion occurred Just before 7 o'clock, when the employes were assembling at their benches. There was a roar and the building, a five story wooden structure, was torn apart heavy machinery dropping from floor to floor. Almost immediately the ruins took fire. Fortunately for those in the build ing, or a majority of them, the stair ways held for the most part, as did the fire-escapes, and to this fact the absence of a large loss of life is due. In the other factories nearby the ef fect of the explosion was felt, win dows being smashed and holes torn in the walls. The Boston and Maine station, immediately across the rail road tracks, was wrecked. Debris from the Harney building piled on the track 10 feet high and blocked all traffic over the Eastern division. The scene of disaster in West Lynn bordering on Charles and Alley Streets was well fitted for a big fire, and the weather conditions a high southwest wind and hard going were also ngalnst the firemen. The district Is the newer factory section of the town, and dates back to the great fire of November 26, 1889, when, because of the passage of the fire limit law, cheaper factories than brick were sought for, as well as cheaper land. The factories were built close together, and to a great extent filled with inflammable ma terial. FIGHT AT HKAUTY CONTEST. Froc-For-All Fight In Pennsylvania District School. Washington, Pa. (Special). East Finley township, 10 miles from this city Is in a turmoil over a free-for-all fight in the district school during a beauty contest and as a result many resldnets of the township are carry ing bruises. The trouble was started when Samuel Teegarden and John Sampson, who were buying votes for the leading contestants in the beauty contest, were informed that they were $3 In arrears in the payment of the votes, nnd all votes cast after their money had become exhausted would be thrown out, Teegarden and Sampson are said to have resented this action and endeavored to destroy the ballot box. A general flpt fol lowed, in which the lights in the schoolhouse were put out. Many girls and women were trampled upon, but none were sdiously injured. War rants have been issued for the arrest of all Involved In the fight. lOXTOMBKD MINERS RESCUED. Carelessness Hud Caused Explosion Of A Lot Of Dynamite. Houghton, Mich. (Special) .Four teen boxes of dynumite exploded in the Quincy Mine, cutting off from escape over 40 miners who had gone down the shaft before the explosion occurred. Rescuing parties believed them dead until they were found in a sheltering level, where they had fled after the explosion. One man, William Gogln, was blown to pieces, and three others were wounded. Over a score of miners were half-suffocated from smoke and were resuscitated with much difficulty. A careless miner let fall some burning grease In a powder box and the explosion followed. Will Sue The World. San Francisco (Special). The Su preme Court decided that the Mc Enery Act, passed at the last session of the legislature, is constitutional, and that propertyowners can estab lish title to their lands, the records of which were destroyed by the great fire, by suing the world at large. If no claimant appears within a certain period, title to the property is re established. , Gillette Is Guilty. Herkimer, N. Y. (Special). Ches ter Gillette, charged with the killing of Grace Brown, waB found guilty of murder in tho first degree Tuesday night by the Jury, which had the case ' under deliberation for five hours. Tho verdict was rendered shortly after 11 o'clock. Gillette took the verdict stoically. He will bo sentenced ou Thursday morning to death In tho electric chulr at Au burn. A Hat lie At Leyte. Manila (By Cable). A column of constabulary troops encountered a band of Pulajaneg between La Pus and Terragona, on the Island of Leyte, December 5. In the battle that followed four soldiers were kill ed and eight were wounded. Among the wounded was Lieut. Ralph p, Yates, Jr. Ills wounds are not seri ous. Thirty Pulajanes were killed and many were wounded and cap tured. No details ot the fight have been received. LIVES LOST IN RAGING FLOOD Half of Arizona Town is Swept Awy. Thoenlx. Ariz. (Special). Private railroad dispatches received -here say that 60 lives were lost at Clifton in the great flood that swept through the ramp, destroying many business buildings, wrecking the smelting plant of the Arizona Copper Com pany and tearing out miles of track of the Arizona and Mexico Railroad. Clifton, which has about 3,500 people, lies In a narrow valley near the eastern line of Arizona. The less prosperous of tho Inhabitants livo In Chase Creek Canon, a peculiarly dan gerous situation In times of high water. Two years ago 1 2 lives were lost In the canon and Immense dam age was done by the rise of the San i.' ........ i 1,1 inuim;u nivt'r. The principal business section of the town was almost completely ruined. The name of only one vic tim, however, has been obtained Mrs. Joseph Thorm, who, with her husband and children, was caught in a falling building nnd killed. The other members of the family had narrow escapes. The Coronndo Railway from Clif ton to Longfellow is destroyed. It will be several weeks before business can be resumed over the road. The financial loss cannot be estimated. The Gila River bridge went out, cutting oft all communication with the Clifton section by that route. All wires are down on the main lines, with the exception of one by way of Lordsburg, which Is working inter mlttingly. Owing to the Isolated Bectlon In which the floods occurred the work of securing exact details of the disaster is difficult. The concentrator dnm which gave way, precipitating the great flood upon the town, was constructed en tirely of earth. The dam was car ried away two years ago as a result of the swollen streams and a num ber of persons were drowned. Tho water came down the San Francisco River and Chase Creek wkh a rush late yesterday. There s hardly a building In town which was not damaged to some extent. The greatest damage was done In North Clifton, where several stores and residences were washed down. Paulson s Addition was almost, wip ed out. East Cliton also Buffered greatly. Grent damage was inflicted on the Detroit nnd Shannon copper concentrators. A sudden rise In the Gila River caused by heavy snows nnd rains in the last two weeks was responsible for the flood. Clifton is a town in Graham County, Southeastern Arizona. In 1900 the population was 861. It is located at the end of a branch :St the Arizona nnd New Mexico Railroad, and has a telegraph and express of fice. It Is built upon the bank of the Rio San Francisco, a branch of the Salt River. ITALY TO ADMIT l S. MEATS. Will Accept Government Stamp As Sufficient. Washington (Special). Restric tions upon the entrance into Italy of American pork products have been removed by the Italian Government. Heretofore Italy, In common with some other European Governments, has insisted upon making its own microscopical examination of Ameri can pork products Bent to that coun try. The expense of the examination had to be paid by the American ex porters. This requirement placed the packers In the position of having to pay twice for tho examination, onco here and again in Italy. Secretary Wilson took up the ques tion with the State Department and has Induced the Italian Government to accept the certificate of Inspection placed on meats by the Agricultural Department. Lives Lost In Flood. El Paso, Tex. (Special) .From in formation received 'here, !t Is be lieved that the town of Clifton, Ariz., has been practically washed away. The Copper Queen Hotel Is said to have been swept away by the flood and at least 50 persons lost their lives. Phoenix, Ariz. It is reported that 50 people have been drowned in the floods at Clifton, Ariz. Prominent Man Assassinated. Macon, Ga. (Special). Charles Brooks, prominent citizen of Chlpley,' Ga., was assnsslnuted while sitting in a chair at his home. The shot was fired through a window. There 1b no clue. Blood hounds will be put on the tiinl at onco. tfl.NAV AL WOULD. Union Pacific's net profits in Oc tober increased $105,395. Bank of England directors con tinue the 6 per cent, discount rate. Reading directors are now ex pected to take dividend action on December 17. Call money in New York ranged from 20 to 2 8 per cent. The con tinued high rate discourages specula tion. The American Car & Foundry Company's new plant at Madison, III., is making forty cars a dny. Samuel M. Newberger, of Phlla- dolphia, has been elected a member of the New York Stock Exchange. A New York Stock Exchange seat was sold Thursday for $82,500, a drop of $2500 from the lust previous sale. In three months wire products have risen $4 the ton. Commercial failures In the United States during the month of Novem ber were 885 In number und $11, 980,782 In amount of liabilities. In the corresponding month last year there were 817 defaults with a total indebtedness of. $8,866,798. While the $12,000,000 to bo dis tributed by Secretary Shaw on De- cember 15, in tho shape of antici pated Interest on Government bonds will help a little, tho sum Is too small to make much Impression on the money market. Bunkers connected with tho com pany seem very confident that Kan sas City Southern preferred will go upon a 6 per cent, dividend basis next year. The Block is tipped by good people to cross 80. It Atchison follows the example of other railroads it will increase its dividend at about tho same time that It Increases its capital. Although 10,000,000 tons ot an thracite wore mined lu October and N'ovember, the coal companies soli 500,000 tons from tjielr previously! accumulated stock which hud beonjj mined when anthracite was 50 eontu i ton cheaper than U la now. STATE OF PEIiNSTO " Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. The Eagle Hotel property In West Chester, and a large building lot, property of the late Emily J. Hayes, widow of Nathan T. Hayes, was sold to John F. Donovan for $68,100. Spreading rails on Lie " Pennsyl vania Railroad, near Danville, caus ed eight cars, loaded with coal, to leave the track and topple Into the river. A mine Are. which was started thirty years ago in a mine branch In the Sharp Mountain, above East Mt. Carbon, has started with new vigor and it sends forth sparks and tongues of fire like a volcano. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company owns the laud upon which the old mine is located and will take steps at onco to put out the fire. Trying to escape from a mine chamber at' the Burnslde colliery, near Shomokln, Anthony Delshant was killed and Domlnlck Dolsota fa tally Injured by a fall of coal. Jacob Jaeoby, aged 81 years, of Kuston, died in hlB room at the Mt. Vernon Hotel, having been asphyxi ated by gas, which escuped from a heater In his room. Rov. Geo. II. Millet', who haB been pastor of the Pottstown Landing Re formed Church for the past ten years, tendered his resignation to accept a call to Christ Reformed Church, Fayette, N. Y. A meeting of the comslstory of the church was held nt which the resignation of the pastor was not accepted, and he was prevailed upon to remain. Rev. Mr. Miller is president of the Philadel phia Clasais of the Reformed Church. It is believed by the Chester po lice that Augustus Andrews, the young rcan from Phoenlxville, who refuses to tell how he was injured Monday night, was stabbed while trying to hold up two Italians. He has been detained under $500 ball. James O'Malley was convicted In Pittsburg of holding up nnd robbing two men in the East End district re cently and sentenced to serve twenty years in the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary. Annie Shutt, 10 years old, a mark er, employed In the Cumberland shirt factory, Mt. Carmel, got her hair caught In the machinery and the top of her scalp was torn off. She had crawled under a machine to get a bobin that dropped, when her hnir caught in a revolving shaft. Many girls fainted at tho horrible Right nnd a panic ensued in which several were slightly injured. The injured girl may die. William Cole, aged 28, a contrac tor, at Patton, died on the Pennsyl vania Limited, while being taken to a Philadelphia hospital for treat ment. Ho was very ill when placed on the train at Altoonn, and the conductor at first refused to admit him. Robbers entered the home of Alex ander Stlney, a wealthy contract miner, of Shenandoah, while the family was absent, and ransacked the house. Two gold wutches, several lings, $75 in cash and a quanity of silverware were taken. Two young women, giving their names as Mary Dougher nnd Mary lloska, were committed to prison by Magistrate Gillespie, of the North Scranton police precinct, to answer a charge of highway robbery, pre ferred by two little girls who charg ed the prlsouevs with having held them up nnd robbed them of their pay envelopes. The little girl, Mar garot Jones and Margaret Smith, went to the police station at 7 o'clock and complained that two women had stopped them nt the corner of Brick Avenue and Putnum Street and took from them their pay envelopes, con taining $6.45 and $5.46 respectively. Both girls are employed at the Klotz Silk Mill, and were on their way home. They gave a good desclptlon of the women and early next morn ing. Miss Dougher and Miss lloska were, arrested at their homes. The Eastern Pennsylvania Rail ways Company lias decided to build a new trolley branch through Miners ville and out to Lytle and Primrose. This will cover about a dozen miles and will tap a territory populated by some 5000 people. Harry Lntton, of Colwyn, who miraculously escaped being killed In an automobile- smashup at Point Breeze race track, in which his com panion was instantly killed, is slowly recovering, and now it is though thai ho will pull through. Benjamin Behofleld, aged 61 years a member of the G. A. R., and a veO eran of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, died after a month's Illness at the residence -oi his daughter, Walnut Street, Darby. George Miller and his wife, an aged couple in the service of Dr. F. X, StraesBley. of 621 Washington Street, Allegheny, were found dead in a room over the physician's stable, having been asphyxiated by natural gas. which escaped from the .stove while they were sleeping. It Is supposed that in turning off the Illuminating gaa when they retired at night the heating valve was accidentally turn ed on allowing tho gas to escape In to the room. Mayor Dimmlck, of Scranton, will permit sacred concerts by Bauer's Band at the theaters on Sunday nights if tho program is strictly tucred. There must be no jig tunes. Somebody has written a letter to the Mayor asking if "Waiting at the Church" will be considered ss sacred music. No decision hus yet been an nounced. Running ahead of his traln to throw a switch, William Siefert, aged 19 years, of Hellertown, a brakeman at tha Bethlehem Steel Works, slip ped and fell on tho rails and the lo comotive speeding along cut him to pieces. Hr. W. W. Cottingham, of Easton, was elected secretary of Dallas Lodge No. 896, F. and A. M., for the for tieth consecutive time. This Is said to be the record for continuous ser vice in the same office In any of the Becret fraternities in this section of the Statu. Mrs. Caroline Lclnbach died of a. broken heart, grieving for her hus hand, Israel G. Lelnbach, who died! last Sunday. Both were pioneer citi zens of South Bethlehem. Their ages' wore 69 and 73 respectively. J It was noted at Hhamokln that in the last year, deposits in the four! local banks increased $750,000, ow- Ing lurgely to the fact that miners saved their money because President' John Mitchell and other labor lead ers advised the United Mine Workv ers as well as all other tollers not to spend all their money foolishly; The collieries have worked almost continuously since last January. . ' "'.''' . 7 -
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