A PLEA FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE CONGO Address To Tin President and King Edward. WANT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE- Memorial Adopted at the Conference of the Foreign Missions Board of the United Slates and Canada Declare! That Both Nation Have Recognised This Duty. Philadelphia (Special) At a meet ' ' Ing of the conference of the foreign . , mlMlon boards of the United. Suites and Canada held in thla city on Sat urday it waa unanlmualy a Breed to forward to President Roosevelt, the United States Senate and Kins Ed ward an appeal on behalf of the itrlcken people of the Congo State. The appeal follow: "To the President and the Senate Of the United States mid to Ills Ma jesty King Bdwnrd VI!.: "The Conference of the Foreign Mission Boards of the United States nd the Dominion of Canada would most respectfully sum! earnestly bring to you an appeal on behalf of the stricken people d! the Congo State. We do this in the name of 10 mis sionary organizations, whose work is prosecuted in all sections of the world, and we are persuaded that the petition interprets faithfully the sen timent of their constituency of up wards of 20,otirt,o(i(t of Christian men nd women. We are not forgetful that recognition has been given by both governments to international duty In relution to this unhappy peo ple. It Is a source of keen satisfac tion to us thsit our governments are unit I in leadership in a work so closely affecting International honor. But we are reminded by the recur rence of our annual meeting that weeks and months are passing by, while the heavy burden of wrong continues to rest with crushing weight upon the Congo people, and we recognize with profound regret that the first definite step toward lust International action has not yet been taken. The KvUlenee Convincing. "We speak with deep conviction concerning this Issue, because we are Intimately associated with many resi dents of the Congo State, by whom the conditions to which wexefer have been disclosed. We are constrained to accept their testimony. We know that the earth does not hold men of more sensitive honor or more self sacrificing devotion. But you will not need to be reminded that other testimony than ours has been given to the character and the credibility of these witnesses. A commission selected by King Leopold himself has said of them and their fellow-missionaries in the Congo State that they constitute for the native the aole representative of equity and Jus- tlce. Of their testimony, dreadful as it has been, the commission has declared that they found It to be 'supportej by a multitude of wit nesses' and 'established by a muss of ovidence and official reports.' "The request which we, like !)" great company of petitioners of both governments outside our cor.situcney are urging, is obviously fair to all Interests, since It asks only for such impartial action as shall give au thoritative revelation of actual farts nnd Insure correction of such wrongs as shall be disclosed. We submit that the simple issue thus presented Involves a primary test of national and international honor, and that longer withholding of manifestation Of this measure of International con cern for these wards of the nations would leave upon all powers respon sible for it a lasting reproach. An International Duty. "We would earnestly urge that no device of the ruler of the Congo State, whether of wholesale asper sion of motive or of evasion of ac countability through promotion of transfer of territory to n govern ment of which he Is himself the head, shall be allowed to cloud the issue of international responsibility for Immediate ascertainment of condi tions und correction of wrongs. The issue, as you are well aware, is not of motive, but of fact, and the duty of guardianship binding the powers of protection of the people of the territory of the Congo Hasin is inde pendent of political relations. More over, we would respectfully urge our conviction that if the King is a trus tee he cannot transfer his trust ex cept by International sanction. If the convening of an International conference was important In the opening of the Congo territory, it would seem that a conference for review of the issue In all Its' phases Is Indispensable for wise and just dealing now." A UHpntian killed. Atlantic City, N. 3. (Special). Richard Donan. a midget well known Id theatrical circles was asphyxiated by Illuminating gas here. lie wsis found sitting In a chair beside a heater from which the gas escaped. Donan was 12 years old and a trifle over three feet tali. He was one of the oiiglnal Llllputinna and had trav eled all over the world. Turks Destroy Bulgarian Band, Salonlkl (By Cable).-- At Tchnlr ly, near Monastlr. Turkish troops de stroyed a Bulgarian band, consisting of eight men, killing six of them and rapturing two, both of whom were severely wounded. The Turks lost two men killed and several wounded. Honor For Blunder Matthews. New York (Special). it was an nounced at Columbia I'nlversity that President Roosevelt had received a letter from the French ambassador at Washington stating that the daoa ration of the Legion of Honor had been conferred upon Prof. Brnndei Matthews, of Columbia University, la recognition of his services to lit erature in connection with the study of the French drama. Headless Body Found. New York (Special). The grue some relic of a trugedy was found In a scow in Ka.it River, in the form of the headless and armless body of a man. The dismembered body bad been brought up by a dredge and carried out to sea in the mud scow, wbere it as discovered and brought k back. It was taken to the morgue and the coroner's Jury Is investigat ing the murder theory. It was Im possible to tell whother the man bad been drowned or murdered and thrown Into the river. . THE HEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic After mourning ench other as dead for more than 14 years, Bev. John A. Cull, formerly assistant pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church, of Oak land, Cal.. and his wife were re united in that city. Michael O'Nell. a Central New England Bailroad conductor, though mortally Injured in a wreck near Wlnsted, Ct., draged himself a mile and sent a message which saved a passenger train. Judge Knglish met by chance In Sheridan. Wyo , the wife from whom he had been divorced SO years ago, made love to her and again won her. The Clyde Line freight steamer OnoP'lng? from Boston for Charles ton, Is ashore upon Orlans Beach, Masachusetts coast. A general corporation hunt has been instituted by (he legislature of Nebraska. Kansas and South Dakota. The police of New York have been asked to look out for Frank S. Mor ton, a missing Boston violinist. Pennsylvania Railroad shares fell oft 4 points on the announcement of the plan to Issue 1200.000.000 of new stock nnd bonds to complete Improvements. Miss Sarah M Harding, a wealthy young woman of Brooklyn, MO did not believe in medical science, re fused to call a physician just before she died. A New York jury has awarded $ in. 000 damages to Marlon David son, a child who lost a limb by a street car passing over it. William Allen Smith, who suc ceeds Russell A. Alger in the I'nlted ! States Senate, once sold popcorn for a living. The Vermont and Southern cotton mills, two large North Carolina ! plants, arc reported In linanclal dlffl j cultles. A coal train of 4S cars ran away Ion a steep Incline near Hazleton. Pa. Electric light wires caused a mll I lion-dollar blaze in Lancaster, Pa. Charles McGllI, manager of the wrecked Ontario Bank of Toronto, ' was arreBted on the charge of steal i ing 9-136,000 from the hank's funds. The counsel for Harry K. Thaw j may ask that the case be held outside New York City, alleging that I a fair trial cannot be had in the j metropolis. , William E. Church was hanged in Warrenton, Miss., for the murder of I his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Yeater. on August 30. 1903. The Licorice Paste Trust has been found guilty of illegal combination and a monopoly, but the Individual defendants have been acquitted. Heavy ralnB will cause a loss of thousands of dollars to mine owners in the Ohio Valley, and over 1,000 miners are Idle as a result. The Boston and Maine Bailroad will raise $3,000,000 for improve ments by issuing to a syndicate five per cent, one-year notes. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany proposes to issue 1100,000.000 additional capital stock and $1"'. 000.000 in bords. John S. Harris, former cashier of the bank of Boss, Johnston & Co., at Ashlanu, Mo., committed suicide. Emanuel Lehman, senior member cf the firm of Lehman Bros., cotton brokers, of New York, died there. The members of the Plumbers' Trust In Ashtabula, O., were indicted by the grand jury. foreign. Charges that great quantities of lumber produced in British Columbia has been diverted from the Canadian markets to San Francisco to he ship ped to Panama are to be investigated. A plenary council of the French bishops to discuss the situation of the Catholic Church in France has been summoned to meet January 15 in Paris. Seven ringleaders of the strikers In the Orizaba District, Mex., were shot to death by soldiers in the pres ence of thousands of workmen. Walter Wellman exhibited to a number of aeronauts in Paris his en larged balloon, in which he hopes to reach the North Pole. A crisis in the Spanish Ministry is Impending, the issue being the pro posed Anticlerical Association Law. The Crown Prince of Portugal was injured In a riding accident In Lis bon. Great Britain and Russia are watching Germany's attitude toward Persia. Any attempt of Germany to secure political or commercial as cendancy would unite England and Russia In defense. Russia's financial budget for 1907 contains $250,000,000 for extraordi nary expenditures, of which $200, 000,000 Is for the Ministry of War. A mysterious explosion of a bomb occurred at Vassily Island, a section of St. Petersburg, in which many Knglish families reside. A Philippine Japanese Association has been formed to cultivate com merctal relations between Japan aad the Philippine Islands. A tidal wave devastated several of the Dutch Bast India islands, south of Achln. and several hundred lives are reported lost. General Bennenkampf, command er of the Third Siberian Corps, has been appointed commander of the Third Russian Army Corps. The Japanese government de ided that, on account of untl-Japanese ag itation on the Pacific roast, the training squadron will not go farther than Honolulu. The separation ot church and stale in France has caused a number of Bulls for recovery of money be queathed as endowments for masses for the dead. Colonial Director Dernberg issued a statement in defense of Germany's colonial policy. Henri Brisson. former premier of France, was reelected president of the Chamber of Deputies. Negotiations are in progress for consolidating several coal companies in Nova Srotla. Colonel Audrieff, chief of police of Lodz. Poland, was shot and killed in that city Earthquake shocks were felt in portions of Norway, Sweden and Russia. It Is rumored that the third son of the late Shah has formed an army to march upon Teheran with a view to capturing the throne. Russia proposes to build two 21,-000-ton warships and ten 12,000 ton vessels. General Pavloff, Russian Judge advocate general, was shot and mortally wounded in front of the military court building in St. Peters burg. The assassin was captured af ter killing a policeman. Major Genres) Wood has recom mended a medal of honor for Cor poral Beth L. Weld, for conspicu ous gallantry In the Philippines HUNDREDS IRE LOST t lH WAVE A Terrible Disaster in Dutch East Indies. THE ISLANDS SWEPT BY THE SEA. Three Hundred People Perish on the Islsnd of Tsna and Forty More Are Swept to Their Death on Simalu The Disaster Supposed to Have Fol lowed a Volcanic Disturbance. The Hague (By Cable). A tidal wave has devastated some of the Dutch Hast India Islands south of Achln. The loss Is very great. Ac cording to a brief official dispatch 300 persons perished on the Island Of Tana, while 40 are known to hnve been drowned at the Island of Sima lu. The Dutch East Indies, a name given to the Dutch possessions In the Malay archipelago, has an area of 7!in,000 square miles and a popula tion of about 35.000.000 scattered over the numerous Islands and parts! of islands. Many of the smaller islands of the group are volcanic In their nature and tidal waves follow ing eruptions have frequently caused large loss of life. A tidal wave swept about 30.000 to death from a group of the smallest of the Islands in 1883. This disaster, like almost all others there, followed volcanic disturbances. It Is probable that the disaster was due to the same cause. Vol canic disturbances are reported from various parts of the world. Mount Mauna Loa In Hawaii is in eruption. Vesuvius has recently been active, nnd Mount Aetna has been belching forth smoke. These in a great meas ure may account for the seismic dis turbances that were reported from Europe. Many of the most fatal tidal waves of which there is record have been accompanied by earthquakes, adding to their horrors, but making It Im possible to say whether the earth quake or the Inundation has been the more fatal and destructive. The great earthquake at Lisbon In 175 was accompanied by a tidal wave which, rolling up the Tagus River from the ocean, submerged all the lower parts of the city and destroy ed thousands of lives which might possibly have escaped the earthquake 9hocks. When the earthquake came to Caracas in 1812 there was a tidal wave at Laguayra. the entreport of Caracas, which destroyed many lives. In 1895 a series of tidal waves, accompanied by or alternating with earthquake shocks, visited some of the most populous islands of Japan. The tidal waves reached from 15 to 20 miles inland, being of such height, force and volume 10 miles from the ocean, particularly when restricted to narrow valleys, as to be capable of destroying much life. The number of human lives lost at that time has never been stated in any English newspaper, but that it ran far Into the thousands there is no room to doubt. Ten thousand is more apt to be an under than an over es timate, such were the ravages of the combined seismic and cataclysmic terrors visited upon that part of the world during nearly a week of days and nights of horror, which, for tunately, come but seldom in the experience of the race. China has been a great sufferer from tidal waves; many thousands of her population have gone to death in this way. The last gteat tidal wave in this country was that along the Texas coast !n 1900, when the city of Gal veston was destroyed and hundreds of persons perished. WOMAN SHOT BY HUSBAND. Savannah Fashionable Leader Dan gerously Wounded. Savannah, Ga. (Special). Mrs. B. Leslie Roturean, a society woman, is at a hospital suffering from a bullet wound in her side which the doctors think will prove fatal, and her husband Is being held without ball to await the result of her in juries. Both husband and wife claimed at first that the wound was accidental, but when Mrs. Roturean was told that her life was in danger she confessed that she was shot dur ing a quarrel with her husband and while both were struggling for pos session of the pistol. Mrs. Roturean said she chlded her husband for staying out late. He retorted bitterly, and then she struck him several blows with a riding whip. Roturean, according to his wife, snatched the whip and lashed her severely across her bosom and shoul ders. She then got a pistol and tried to shoot her husband, but he seized her and struggled to take the pistol. Just as he got the pistol away from her It was discharged and she fell. She will not say, however, that her husband deliberately shot her. The Rotureans are connected with Savannah's old families and have heen prominent socially. Mrs. Ro turean Is one of the handsomest women In Savannah. Germany's Dig 'ciiony Bill. Berlin (By Cable). The Colonial division of the foreign office haB pre pared a table showing that the ex penditure of Germany on her colo nies in Africa and the South Seas total $161,250,000. to which may be added indirect expenditures, In cluding postal service and steam ship subsidies, amounting to $7,860, 000. Twenty .'(li ned To Death. Strassburg (By Cable). Twenty persons perished in a tire which de stroyed the bookbinery of Hudert ft Co., an English firm, at Gelspol shelm. near this city. A vat of boil ing celluloid exploded and the flam ing liquid caused such Instantaneous ignition of everything with which It came in contact that all the exits were cut off in a very short time. Some of those who escaped from the burning rooms were badly scalded. Assassin's Head Is Kept. St. Peterbnrg (Special). The as sassin of Lieutenant General Pavloff, the military procurator of St. Peters burg, was executed at Llsynos, near Cronstadt. He refused to take the sacrament, and die i unidenliflod and with a cheer for the revolution on his lips. The head of the assassin was removed and preserved at the headquarters of the political police for possible Identification later. AT THE NATION S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. River And Harbor Bill. Representative Morrell (Rep., Pa) Introduced In the House a resolution providing for annual river and hnr bor appropriation bills, which "shall he on the same scale as those of the Army and Navy and other large ap propriations, being necessary to en able the I'nlted States to keep pare with the other nations of the world." The River and Harbor Bill proba bly will be reported to (he Houf this week. Chairman Burton, of the House Rivers and Harbors Commit tee, originally planned to lay the bill before the House on January 1 4, ar.M it has not heen definitely announced that the bill will not be reported on that day, but Mr. Burton is Inclined to grant a few days of grace to the Illinois members, who are anxious to have the presentation of the bill de layed until Representative Lorltnef , of Illinois, who Is 111, can return and participate in the committee's dis cussions of the projects for which ap propriations are to be made. Mr. Burton and his associates hold firmly to their decision not to have any hearings before the entire commit tee because of the shortness of the session. I'inw in Federal Lew, It is announced at the Department of Justice that the decision of the government to try by court-martial Corporal Knowles, who shot and ser iously wounded Captain Macklln. of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, at El Re no. Okla., was occasioned by the dis covery of a strange omission In the federal laws. There Is no provision for trial in the federal courts for assault, with a deadly weapon, al though there-Is a law roverlng mur der, when the offense is commuted within the federal Jurisdiction. There Is a law providing that the commis sion of an offense which is not cov ered by the federal statutes shall be punishable under the laws of the state within which the federal juris diction is located. In this case the Jurisdiction was within a territory, not a state. Therefore, in order to bring Corporal Knowles to justice, it was found necessary to try him under military laws. Vsed insult in Language. Information was received by the Navy Department of the court-martial In the Philippines of Passed As sistant Paymaster Jere Maupln, II. S. A. For using what the specifi cations allege to have been Insulting and vile language toward Capt. Hen ry 8. Hathaway, of the Army, in the presence of ladles,- the court found him guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer nnd a gentleman." He was sentenced to lose 10 numbers In his grade and to be reprimanded. Reviewing this sentence, Bear Ad mlrnl Brownson, commander of the fleet, said: "It Is regretted that a majority of the court, consisting of officers of standing in the service, should have taken so light a view of) the gravity of the offense." The Senate passed the McCuraber Service Pension Bill without division. A. F. Stutter (Jets Place. Arthur F. Statter of Walla Walla, Wash., at present private secretary to Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, will be appointed Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury to succeed Charles Hallam Keep, when the lat ter retires on February 1, to be come Bank Commissioner of the State of New York. Mr. Cortelyou, who takes the Treasury portfolio on March 4, 1b to fill the office whenever he desires to do so, and First Assistant Post master General Hitchcock will later on be made Assistant Secretary. Congress And The Departments. By a vote of 9 to 7 the House Committee on the Judiciary defeated a proposition to consider the HOP burn-Dolliver bill, which makes liquors entering a temperance State through the medium of interstate traffic subject to the laws of the mate. The house Committee on Indus trial Arts and Expositions favorably reorted a Joint resolution directing the Preslden to appoint a speclnl commissioner to invite the British Government to participate in the Jamestown Exposition. The State Department received a dispatch from Shanghai, stating that the famine relief committee has thus far received 100,000 Mexican dol lars for the sufferers. Senator Hopkins addressed the Senate in defense of the right of Reed Smooth to retain his seat bb a member from I'tah. Champ Clark, of Missouri, is be ing urged for leader of the House, to succeed John Sharp Williams. The House was the scene of a threatened personal encounter be tween Representative Gaines, of Ten nessee, and Representative Mahon, of PennBylvanla. growing out of Mr. Gaines' hill to "dock" members for chronic absenteeism. The Secretary of War has ordered the court-martial of Corporal Knowles, Twenty-fifth Infantry, charged with having shot Captain Mac klln, commander of Company A. The hill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government was re ported to the Senate. The Committee on Revision of the Laws reported a joint bill codifying the criminal law of the Cnlted States. The Senate passed the bill limit ing the hours of railway employees to lt hours of service followed by 10 hours of rest. Representative Pearre, of Mary land, has introduced a Joint resolu tion providing for the election of Patted States Senators by a direct vote of the people. Testimony detrimental to Operator Dutrow, who was on duty at Silver Springs on the night of the Terra" Cotta wreck, was given on the stand at the Inquest by Operator Moore, of Kensington. He declared that Dutrow was Incompetent and In efficient. Dutrow is kept under sur veillance by Central Officer detec tives. The various federal executive de partments have arranged a plan for the preservation of American an tiquities. Secretary WIlBon conducted an other hettr'.tig on tbe question, "If blended whisky whisky?" The House adoptee! a provision to abolish Hie grade of l.eutenanf gen eral. The House passed (he Army Ap propriation Bill, carrying $70,000, 000. Secretary Root offered suggestions to the Senate Committee on For eign Relations for modifications in treaty with Santo Domingo. THE LI00RI0E TRDST IS FOUND GUILTY Indivdual Defendants, However, Are Acquitted. GOVERNMENT WINS GREAT VICTORY. Jury Finds That the J. S. Young Com p nj . of Baltimore, and the Mar Andrews & Forbes Co. Formrd an Illegal Combination and Monopoly, but Not a C( nspiracy. New York (Special). The Jury returned with a verdict of acquittal as against the Individual defendants. Karl .Tungbluth and Howard E. Young, and n verdict of guilty as against the corporate interests, namely, the MarAndrcws ft Forbes Company and the J. 8. Young Com pany. Two corporations were found guil ty on two counts, one of forming an Illegal combination and the other ot being a monopoly. The corporations were acquitted on the count charg ing conspiracy. Counsel for the defense at onco made motions for an arrest of judg ment, and asked for a stay. It was charged that although the government was nominally the prose cutor, the trlnl had its real incep tion In the minds of the independent tobacco men of the country, who hoped, under the ramifications of the Sherman nt i-t rust Law. to le.irh the secrets of the Continental To bacco Company. it was declared that there hud been no proof of Illegal combination on conspiracy or attempt to restrain or monopolize the licorice paste business. The evi dence showed that the defendant had willingly furnished the Inde pendents with all the paste they needed to enrry on their business. Attorney Nlroll also asked the jury to remember that the Continental Tobacco Compnny itself used SB pel cent, of all the paste manufactured in this country. The only combination shown, Mr. Nlooll concluded, had been the at tempt of the defendants to effect a situation that would give them the control of the raw root market in the Orient, and to enable them to get a year's supply of raw root to protect them from being deprived of licorice paste, so necessary In tho conduct of their business. All men, he argued, had a right, under the law, to protect their business inter ests, and more than Hint the defend ants had not done. Special Attorney General Taft, in the concluding argument for the government, said he regarded this as the most important case tried in this Jurisdiction In many years. Mr. Taft denied that the independent manufacturers has instigated the prosecution. Not alone had an at tempt to monopolize the llrorlre paste business been proved, he de clared, but It had also been shown that an attempt had been made to monopolize the sale of smoking and chewing tobacco by getting control of the raw product necessary to the production of those commodities. He read a letter introduced in evi dence to show the defendants knew their methods were In restraint of trade. The letter was written by Mr. Ran, one of the agents of the de fendants. Judge Hough, in charging the jury, declared that a general verdict of not guilty would mean that all of the defendants were not guilty of all the acts alleged In the Indict ment, and conversely, that a general verdict of guilty would mean that all of the defendants were guilty of all the nctB charged. The court review ed the evidence, dwelling particular ly upon the secretary with which the alleged combination was formed, and Instructed the jury that if they found that a single overt act alleged had been committed within this district It gave the court legal jurisdiction. Tho defense presented a number of points which it wished charged to the jury, principally concerning the question of intent, the major portion of which the court refused to charge. The jury retired at 5 P. M., and an hour later came to the courtroom and asked the court if it would lie permissible to return a verdict of guilty against the two corporations and one of acquittal against the in dividual defendants Judge Hough replied that if the evidence bo war ranted their finding, they were act ing clearly within their power by bringing In such a verdict. There upon the jury again retired. Parmer Boy Weds Qtrl Of Wealth, Syracuse, N. Y. (Special). The marrigae a few days ago of Miss Edith M. Wilbur, of Oneontn, to a poor farmer boy, Herbert Cole, who acted as her chauffeur through Eu rope last summer, is the culmination of a pretty romance. Miss Wllher. In April. 1005, fell heir to an estate worth several hundred thousands dollars. Including 4.000 acres of farmland near Oneonta. Last sum men she bought a big touring car in Syracuse and engaged young Colo to take herself and mother through Europe. Cupid became busy and upon their return the girl took fre quent automobile trips so as to be near Cole. Minder Over Young Woman. Lexington, Ky. (Special). In a fight over a young woman to which both had been paying attentions, Cleveland Justice, IS years .old. shot and killed his routln, Goorge Mulllns. Where Mc kinley Died. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). The former residence of Johu G. Mill burn, on Delaware Avenue, to which the late President McKlnley was taken after he was shot at the Pan American Imposition, and where he died, was badly damaged by fire this morning. The fire practically consumed everything within the four wajls. The loss is estimated at' $25,000. The property has been sold recently by Mr. Mllllmrn to Philip M. Sbannan. Frightened To Heiitli. Philadelphia (Special). Albert Lindsay was frightened to death and two men severely burned by an ex plosion of molten metal In tho finish ing plant at Baldwin's Locomotive Works Frank Bakoiowtky and Pat rick Dolan were burned about the face und body by the hot metal which flew over them, and LlndHay, who was standing near, was so frightened thut he collapsed. He was picked up unconscious, and when taken to a hospital with the Injured men was dead. MOLTEN METAL RUINS ON MEN Twenty-Four Probably Cremated In Steel Mill. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special ( One of the worst explosions in the history of the Jones ft I.aughlln Steel Works occurred about 7 o'clock at the Eliza Furnacea, when a large quantity of gas which had accumulated at the base of the furnace became Ignited and exploded. Tons of molten metnl were showered around the furnace for a radius of 40 feet. Out of a force of 35 men employed at the furnace when the explosion occurred three of them John Cramer. An drew Foatherko and Gustave Kess ler have bee.i taken to the morgue, their bodies horribly mutilated h the fire; seven men are In hospitals fatally Injured, and 24 others hav not been accounted for. While the mill officials are Ir, dined to believe that all of the miss ing men were not cremated in the molten metal, nothing definite if known as to their present where abouts. Onlv one man. George Knox, he turned up since the ex plosion, r.nd Knox says everything happened so quiek that he doubtr whothe,- (he men escaped. Fire I epartment Chief Peter Sny der, of the Fourth District, was ser iously injured while directing the firemen to extinguish the fire which followed the explosion. Snyder wat slnl loiied on a trestle 30 feet high, when he slipped and fell to ttu grotmd, Injuring himself Internally. PmtKlrd Women Fight Officers. While responding to ";e alarm a hose carriage was struck by a street car, seriously Injuring two of the firemen and killing n horse. The windows of the street car were shat tered and a panic followed among the passengers. Two women were injured by being trampled. The scenes about the entrance to the mill were pathetic when the families of the victims learned of the disaster. Women, men and children gathered before the gate and made frantic efforts to gain ad mittance. Several of the frenzied women rushed upon the officers and lought them, crying to bo allowed to enter the mill and see their loved ones. Young children ran up and down the streets crying that their father was dead. Later it became necessary to call additional police to forclhly escort the women and children to their homes. The officials at the mills refused to allow anyone to enter the yard where the furnace is located. All Information was refused to news paper men, the officials saying that later they might Issue a statement. A heavy guard of foreign workmen were placed at the yard entrance and even the police were powerless to get putt the foreigners. George Knox, the only man be lieved to have escaped uninjured, Mid: "It was awful. The furnace 1b one of the improved style, and 3 5 of us wer working about, never thinking .of an explosion. Suddenly there was n terrific roar, and im mediately I started to run. Molten metnl was thrown every place. StreaniB of it were running in all directions, and 1 was confronted with an awful death unless I could run faster than the metnl could travel. Thank God, I reached n place of safety, and not a minute too soon. I don't know what hap pened to the other men. 1 did not Ree any of them following the ex plosion. If they did not run quick and fast are all burled under six feet of molten metal." Suic ide Djf His Wife's Coffin. Philadelphia ( Special). Alexan der Johnson committed suicide here while kneeling beside the coffin In which his wife's body lay ready for burial. Johnson shot himself in the head, and his body was found by his three children. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. Gas limit Goes Cp; 'i Dead. Wilmington, 111. ( Special) . F. 11. Pope and Edward Scheibner were killed nnd 12 other persons were In jured here by the explosion of a gas plant, in Woodmen's Hall, while a curd party was In progress. The gas had bee;- leaking, and Pope and Scheibner ha 1 gone Into a rear room to make repairs. The rear of the building was wrecked. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. One firm in Wall Street Thursday bought 20.000 shares of Rending. T. E. Allison was elected a mem ber of the Philadelphia Stock Ex change. A Philadelphia firm sold one block of 5,000 shares of Pennsylva nia at 140H- There Is an expectation that the Gould roads will be the next to come under the probe. Rapid Transit 'b earnings are run ning ahead of last year at the rate of nearly $.'i,000 a day. Electric Company of America di rectors declared the regulur semi annual dividend of 8 per cent. Baltimore ft Ohio directors de: dared the regular semi-iiunual divi dend of 2 per cent, on the preferred stock and 3 per cent, on the com mon stock. Just before the dose W. L. Bull Kent this message to Wlnthrop Smith ft Co.: "1 should not lie surprised to see Pennsylvania have a sharp break in the net few days." The Republic Trust Company, of Philadelphia, lias followed the exam lie of several other Institutions and increased the interest paid on depos its to 3l4 per cent. On small amounts of $100 or less the usual ten day notice need not be given. J annoy ft Co., who are supposed to represent Important officials of the Cambria Steel Company, were conspicuous buyers of the stock. Another well-known broker did his customers: "You can buy all the Cajabiia Steel you can get up to ofCund It Is not going to react any." Concerning the latest "plan" put out for the Rapid Transit, a director of that company says: '"io talk of reducing the dividends on the un derlying companies is exactly the Banie as It you were to discuss the reduction of Interest on a mortgage. If you place a mortgage t 6 per cent., the borrower of the money might afterwards wish to cut It to 3 per cent., but what would tho lender say to such a scheme'.' With all these underlying companies it is now a case of Rapid Transit's pay ing all obligation! agreed upon, or sive up the leases." Commissioner Nell announced that the rate of wages paid to the miners, for tho month of January will be per cent, above the basis. This Is the same as the December rate. Alvln O. Oarber, son of Dr. M. B. Oarber, of Ephrata. Lancaster County, died from convulsions, with which he had heen afflicted for four teen years. The boy. who was 16 years of age, suffered as many as a hundred convulsions dally, and his case was a puzzle, to many special ists. Dltectors of the Collegevllle Na tional Bank met BTfJ organised for the first year of business. A. D. Fetterolf was elected president; M. B. Linderman, vice president, and H. T. Hunslcker, secretary. W. D. Rennlnger Is the cashier and A. T. Allebarh, clerk. The other directors arc B. F. Steiner, F. J. Clamer. W. P. Fenton. Dr. E A. Kruscn, E. S. Moser, Horare Place, A. C. Landes. John It. Francis, Jr.. Charles Q. lilllegass. John D. Frantz, I. T. Hal deman. 1. S. Bucher. C. B. Rltott, b.i Italian silk work er, of Allentown, was arretted on a charge or using the Cnlted States malls to further a lottery scheme. He Is now under $5,000 ball. G. H. B. English, supervisor of the division of the Pennsylvania Bailroad between Bunbury and Mt. Carmol. was awarded a prize of 50 for hnvlng the division roadbed in Hie best condition in that part of (he State. The last will nnd testament of George B. Woomer. lawyer, bans director and erstwhile politician, who died last week, was probated In the courthouse at Lebanon. The estate, valued nt many thousands of dollars, Is bequeathed to the tos tstor's wife and IiIb mother. In case either or both fall to dispose of their share by will it shall at their death be divided between Har vard University nnd Zlon Lutheran Church, that city. ' Thomas D. Black, a wealthy farm er, of Hanover Township, died in terrible agony from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a small dog last October and took 111 on last Sunday. He raved and barked like a dog and attendants were forced to tie him to his bed. The Board of Prison Inspectors at Its monthly meeting at Reading agreed to buy a wig for David Grim, a prisoner, whoBe term 1b expiring, lie has a good record and has worked ever since hlB admission. Grim lost a fine head of hair during a term of over two years for burglary. In making the request for the wig. Grim told the inspectors that he would not like to return to hiB friends a bald man. He thought he would at tract too much attention. Bev. J. Van Horn, aged 54, Pres byterian minister at Sugar Hill, kill ed himself by shooting at the Ever green Hotel, Falls Creek. Mr. Van Horn wandered away from home two days ago, apparently demented. At night went to the Evergreen Hotel. After he retired the proprietor, knowing IiIb family was bending every effort to find him, telephoned to his wife. Next morning Van Horn was not called, and It was supposed he slept late. Mrs. Van Horn ar rived on n train at 10 o'clock and then the room was entered and tha suicide discovered. Van Horn was popular with his people. Some time ago he met with an accident in which his head was Injured, and his men tal trouble is attributed to that. The honeymoon of Abraham Francis, 81 years of age, and Mrs. Anna Snowden, aged 87 years, who were married In York last Saturday, was somewhat disturbed and shaken by Constable George Ostendorf. He served a warrant issued by Alder man ElsesBer. charging the octogena rian with being a bigamist. The prosecutrix In the case Is or was Agnes Berry, who alleges that she married Francis twelve years ago at Columbia. Just as the huge Iron girder in falling crushed the life out of An thony Barasch, an employee of the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenlxvllle, t,(s witu unit tun i hil.lii 11 uord unci. Ing out of the harbor of Bremen, Germany, on their way to this coun try to join blm, after five years' separation. The day before his death, Barasch received a letter from his wife telling of tho joy ex perienced at the expec ted fulfillment of their long cherished hopes. News of her husband's death will bo brok en to her when she lands in New York. The anual meeting of the Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home of Central Pennsylvania was held at the home at Arter's Station, wi.en It was de cided to commence work immedi ately on a new home to be erected near to the present structure. The new building, which will bo a three Btory brick, will cost $17,000. When it is completed the present building will be turned into a home for old and disabled Odd Fellows. Tho Schuylkill County Medical Society at a meeting held in ABhland .started a boom for the establishment of a State Institution for the treat ment of Inebriates. A resolution was adopted asking the Schuylkill Legislators to support a bill with this aim. Dr. G. H. Moore, of Schuylkill Haven, was elected presi dent; Dr. G. O. Santee, secretary, and Dr. David Taggart treasurer of the society for "one year. At the annual meeting of the Be fall Merchants' Protective Associa tion of Monroe County, the following officers were elected: President O. K. Phillips; secretary, John C. Ben Klnger; treasurer, T. D. Dreher; directors, B. W. Chamberlain and W. L. Hoenlng, of Mount Pocono; J. H. Zacharlas and f. B. Drake, ot East Stroiidsburg, and E G. Dor shimer, of Saylorsburg. Albert limcr, a farmer, went to Easton, transacted some business and then disappeared. His family la much worried in consequence. Milton Yetter has been re-elected president of the Delaware Valley Bailroad. Other officers elected are:! William Bray, treasurer; B. EJ. Shulls, secretary, and ex-Congress man Joseph D.'Shiill, general coun sel The road, which has been the butt of many a joke,. Is in a pros perous condition and will be extend ed to Forest Park, Pike County. 1 A large number of the mall bags were thrown on. the track at KraiW, on the main line of the Pennsylvania Bailroad, and beforo they could bei removed they ' were struck by a limited train and completely grdund to pulp. h
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