EIGHTEEN MINERS KILLED
Explosion Occurs at Noon when
Most Workmen Were Out.
ALL THE BODIES WERE FOUND
Condition of the Bodies Showed
That Death Came from
Suffocation.
A terrific explosion occurred about
noon in the Detroit and.
Coal company’s mine- at Detroit, on
Paint Creek, Sho 25 miles above
Charleston, W. Va. entombing 18
men.
That more men were not in the
mine at the time of the accident was
due to the fact that almost all of
the day men, coasisting of miners,
loaders and drivers, were eating their
dinners on the outside, and thus es-
caped the fate of their comrades, the
explosion having occurred at 12:30
o'clock. Had it been either before
or after the noon héur hundreds of
men would have been killed.
The force of the explosion was SO
great that the hills trembled. Tons
of wreckage and debris were hurled
from the mouth of the mine, blocking
the entrance and making the work of
rescue difficult. News of the disaster
quickly spread to nearby mines and
hundreds of men were soon at the
scene, - eager to join in the effort to
rescue the entombed miners if alive,
or recover their bodies if dead.
The ventilating fan was blown out
of position by the explosion, and it
was not until 4 ‘o'clock that it had
been repaired and put back in its
place. As soon as it was set in mo-
tion, a fairly good:current .of air
was sent circulating through the en-
tries. :
Al of the 18 bddiés have been re-
covered. The men, except one, were
found at their places of ‘work, show-
ing that the explosion. came without
warning. The condition of the bod-
jes shows that death came to most
of them from suffocation’
This mine was purchased a few
days ago from the Detroit dnd Kana- |
wha company by the Mucklow: syn-
dicate of Scranton (Pa.) capitalists |
and the transfer of the property ‘was |
made Monday, January 15. A few
days before the transfer was made
the mine was examined by the mine
inspector who reported that it was
in good condition.
FRANCE: WANTS SATISFACTION
Resents Action of Venszuela
Case of M. Taigny.
Further complications have
in the relations between France and
Venezuela, which put rather a ser-
jous aspect upon -the situation. DM.
Taigny,
in the
French steamer without first receiv-
fng permission from the Venezuelan
authorities was later prohibited from |
feaving the vessel and returning to
the land. There was a disposition in
Paris not to view the matter too
gravely because diplomatic relations
had been severed between France and
Venezuela, and M. Taigny could there-
fore be regarded as only a French
private citizen, and not as a repre-
sentative of his government.
French government has, however, re- |
sented the action of that of Venezue-
la in the case of M. Taigny by ord-
ering the Venezuelan charge d'affaires
at Paris to leave France.
It is also reported that the French
government will now make a strong
naval demonstration against Venezue-
la in order to obtain satisfaction for
its various grievances.
Suicide Follows Failure.
Judge J. H. Rotinghaus, for
years Justice of the Peace, and 40
years a merchant at Laramac, near
Wapakoneta, O., committed suicide.
His body was found in the canal.
Judge Rotinghans, who was worth
about $50,000, and who was the own-
er of -an Ohio coal mine, was forced
tnto an assignment Monday by the
sudden call of a $10,000 loan. This |
is supposed to have brought - about
mental derangement.
SAYS GARFIELD BROKE FAITH
Commissioner Criticised for Course
He is Alleged to Have Pursued.
Attorneys” for the indicted Chicago
meat packers arraigned the Govern-
ment sharply for the policy they de-
clared it had, through Commissioner
pf Corporations Garfield, pursued in
the investigation of charges made
against the packers.
Attorney John B. Miller, who made
the opening statement for the pack-
ers, declared that Commissioner Gar-
field had declared in the presence of
witnesses that if he was allowed to
obtain evidence from the books of
the packers he would consider the
evidence so gained to be the same as
§f it had been developed before him
in a formal hearing. He declared
that he would prove this by Com-
missioner Garfield himself, if the Com-
missioner would take the stand.
The Erie directors authorized the
double-tracking of the road between
Carrollton and Cuba. N. Y., a dis-
tance of 25 miles.
pleted the Erie will have a double |
track line 414 miles long from Sala- |
manca to Jersey City.
toads | in Railway Mileage.
The United States leads the world
both in the present mileage and the
recent growth of its railways. This
§s shown in a report on ‘the trans-
portation routes and systems of the
world,” issued by the Bureau of Sta-
tistics of the Department of Com-
merce and Labor. It points out that
of the total railway mileage of the
world, aggregating in 1904 543.0
miles, there was 211,074 miles in the
United States.
Kanawha.
resulted |
the French charge d’affaires |
at Caracas, having gone on board al
The |
20 |
When this is com-
BUT ONE OF THI ALIVE
RTEEN
one Survivor Adrift on Gang Plank
for Fifty-six Hours.
“Adrift on a gang plank from 9
o'clock Saturday morning until 5
o'clock Monday afternoon without
food or water, Carl Summer, the only
known surviving member of a party
of 13 people aboard the four-masted
schoomer Robert E.. Stevenson,. was
picked up by the German steamer
Europa,
Savannah, in latitude
longtitude 35.52 west,
Savannah, Ga.
. Besides the ship's crew threre were
four women aboard, the wife of the
24.58 north,
and brought to
servant, “all
pleasure trip.
The Stevenson sailed from Phila-
delphia January 6 for ‘Havana. Capt.
Higbee was in charge, with First
Mate Lewis. Sumner says the
schooner grounded on Diamond
shoals. All save four seamen, him-
self included, took to the boats, one
boat being smashed and the first mate
and -two men being drowned. This
fate he witnessed. He thinks the
others capsized.
Two of the men who remained with
the schooner left on a raft, he left on
the gang plank, and the fourth re-
going to Havana on a
mained. Several ships passed Sum-
ner at a distance before he was
picked up.
CRUSHING REVOLUTION
Russian Government Making Desper-
ate Fight in Provinces.
Two naval battalions were dis-
patched to the Baitic provinces to
crush the revolt in the islands of the
coast. regions.
ed a telegram from Gen. Sollogub,
governor general of the Baltic pro-
vinces, saying that the pacification of |
Esthonia and Livonia was progressing |
satisfactorily, but that it was lag
in Courland. Over
cipal leaders of the insurrection,
governor general said, had been ap-
prehended and eight of them exe-
cuted.
| quantity of war munitions from the
| Zrsenal of the fortress. A number
| of men in military uniforms appear-
bound from Philadelphia for.
captain, two relatives and a colored |
At Kieff, the local revolutionists by |
| a daring exploit have obtained a large i
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T
GA OF FAE GASES PARC
Eighteen Lives Lost in Colored
Church in Philadelphia.
BLAZE WAS ONLY SMALL ONE
Sermon Had Just Been Preached on
the Text “Why Sit We Here
Until We Die?”
.
A wild panic following a loud shriek
of “fire” brought death to 18 colored
persons and injuries to nearly two
score of others. Sunday night in St.
Paul's Baptist church, on the West
side of Eighth street, between Pop-
lar and Girard avenues, Philadelphia.
The tremendous rush to gain the
street was of brief duration, and that
more were not killed in the stampede
was probably because the church was
not crowded. At the time the disas-
ter occurred not more than 300 per-
sons were on the second floor of the
building, which with the gallery was
capable of accommodating about 700.
The fire was a-trifling one and was
extinguished before the firemen ar-
rived. The smell of smoke added to
the panic, and. despite the heroic
work of Rev. EB. W. Johnson, the pas-
tor of the church, who tried in vain
to allay the fears of the frightened
worshipers, the terror- stricken peo-
ple made a desperate rush to leave
the church, only to be choked up on
fhe narrow stairway. Those in the
rear leaped over the prostrate forms
| of those who fell, and when the rush
Count Witte receiv- |
the |
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| ed at the arsenal with forged _requi- |
sitions, loaded two
| munitions and escaped.
| A column of troops which was Op-
| erating east of Tiflis along the rail-
| road to restore communication with
| Batium,
| the station of Suram’ in spite of the
| obstinate resistance of
ists, who are uniformed and as well
wagons
the revolution- |
with |
ging the pastor’s
20 of the prin- |
was over 18 lay dead on the first floor
and stairs of the building. Death
in nearly every case was due to
suffocation or trampling.
By singular coincidence the text of
sermon was the third
verse of the seventh chapter of Sec-
ond Kings: “Why sit we here and
die?”
A revival is in progress in the
church, and, as is the negro custom,
Pastor. Johnson had appealed to the
easily ‘wrought emotions of his hear-
ers. so that they were in a state of
excitement, a fact which may have
had ue to do with the terrible
catastrophe which followed.
Others in the congregation saw the
smoke almvust as soon as the pastor,
| and some heedless one cried. “Fire!”
has forced its way as far as|
Instantly the cry swept in a shrill
wave of sound through the audience.
The collection was being taken and
| the choir was singing an anthem. The
their music to
the ushers dropped
singers changed
shrieks of fear:
| their collection baskets.
| armed- as government troops. |
At Warsaw, six Jews, members of
| the Anarchist committee, who were
| tried by
| to death,
court-martial and condemned
were executed, January 18.
SUICIDE IN PRISON
Could Not Endure Treatment
| Russian Jailers.
{ -Schakoffsky, lately a clerk
by
at the
{ thunderous tones,
| from
Nadeja ferwarding office, and another |
political prisoner hanged themselves
in. their cells.on account of the awful |
| treatment to w hich
jected.
A number cf Hebr
Warsaw.
Much mystery su
ments of the cruisers
Bogatyr and Rossia. They
| Vladivostok with sealed orders about
the middie of November. making a
they were sub-
ours Were [Shit ut Tillman’s Resolution Laid on Table
rrounds the move- |
Gromobot,
left
With heroic presence of mind, the
prganist continued to play with in-
creased volume of his -instrument ‘to
but :the refrain
could not be heard, drowned out in
the medley of shouts and - screams
the panic-stricken audience.
Johnson strove to quiet his
people. but he could not. He plead-
ed and praved, but the audience
turned its back and fled for the door |
as of one accord.
MORRIS AFFAIR IN SENATE
Pastor
By Large Majority.. .
The Senate. by. motion of Senator
Daniel, laid. on the table by the. de-
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| cisive vote of 54 to 8, a resolution of- |
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course along the coast ” Japan. They |
are accompanied by a flotilla of tor-
pado boats, the commanders of which |
| had instruetions to send the cruisers
to the bottom on the slightest sign of
insubordination. Since then no news
| of their whereabouts has been re-
ceived. oh
| par ph
Foreign Crop Report.
| partment of Agriculture for Decem-
per shows that over large areas of
Europe the prevailing character-
| isties were unseasonably warm weath-
er and excessive humidity. Crops
| timely
| and entered on the winter in strong.
healthy condition. Late sowings of
crops in Europe, however, were un-
usually extensive
| is felt concerning them.
MASSACRES IN AUSTRALIA
IRE RAnts of a Village
Blacks Surprise a Launch.
fered by Senator Tillman, providing |
for an investigation of the ejection of |
Mrs. Morris from the White House.
tracked by the Senate out of regard
for its own dignity and for the dig-
nitv of the Presidential office. It did
the Senate to make an inquiry into a
| matter that in reality concerned only
| the Presidential household
and its
| management by the chief executive.
he foreign crop report of the De- |
sown have germindted finely
and some anxiety!
Killed— |
Reports of massacres by blacks in
New Guinea and North Australia were |
received by the steamer Moana. In
New Guinea a party of warriors made
a raid upon the village of Ekiri and
killed and mutilated 33 villagers. The
village constable escaped after -hid-
ing in thé bushes for several days,
and with h two survivors reached Port
M iv. . He took a force of armed
constables to punish the raiders.
The other massacre, at Port Keats,
involved the kiiling by blacks of six
white men and three natives.
and Benders
ers Government engi-
s brought the news to Pert Dar-
They said two white engineers
had been murdered and seven black
men had been arrested and taken on
| board of a steam launch.
{en
The resolution provoked no debate
and Mr.
with a brief statement,
said that he would not have intro-
|
: Diatalimaileny a | Mrs. Ellen Harvey,
not think it’ was part of the duty of | Sogod.
COPPER MINE ABANDONED
Westinghouse Spends Over a Million
: in Developing It. i
After expending more than $1,600.
000 during the past six years in pur-
| chasing and working the copper fields
mines, for many years the third larg-
est in the United States, George
Westinghouse of Pittsburg has aband-
oned his search for copper in the
Vershire in Vermont mountains, and
as a result the village is now prac-
tically deserted. Westinghouse’s
representatives declare that the cop-
per vein is worthless.
Scores of miners and their families
have left town, and now there are not
a dozen families where the popula-
tion at one time was more than: 1,-
000. Throughout the village all the
dwellings formerly occupied by the
employes are being sold and moved
away or torn down. The machinery,
boilers and furnaces are being blown
up by dynamite.
INDIANS ELOPE
Ben Long Ear and Mrs. Crooked Arm
Flee From Reservation.
The Indians of the Crow agency
are much wrought up over the elope-
ment of Ben Long Ear and Mrs.
Crooked Arm, the handsome young
wife of Sub-Chief Crooked Arm. Ben
Long Ear is the son of Chief Big
Medicine. The elopers are graduates
of Carlisle, where they first met and
learned to love each other.
Before their ‘departure Mrs.
Crooked Arm took over $300 in money
that- had been saved by her husband.
Long Ear leaves a heart-broken young
wife.
The United States authorities are
looking for the runaways.
REBELS SURRENDER
Give Up Monte Cristi and Gunboat
—Revolution Ended.
The port of Monte Cristi, on the
north coast of San Domingo, which re-
cently. had been in the hands of the
revolutionists, capitulated to the
Government forces, the latter guar-
anteeing to protect the lives and
property of the rebels.
The Dominican gunboat Indepencia,
which supported General Morales, the
former President of Santo Domingo, |
also surrendered after her command-
er had sought refuge on one of the
American warships. The revolution
is ended and all is quiet.
wirRELESS RECORD BROKEN
Dewey Drydock Tow Sends Message
More Than 3,000 Miles.
Officials at the Government -wire-
less telegraph station at Cape. Eliza-
beth announced that they were nn
communication with one of the tug
accompanying the drydock Dewey.
The drydock was then 2,226 miles off
Cape Hatteras and moving four and a
half knots an hour. It was more than
3,000 miles from the local station.
Officials say this breaks all records
for long-distance wireless telegraphy
in this country, the best previous
showing having been the receipt of
a message at Colon, Panama, from a
distance of 2,60Q miles.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
. B. C. Henneberger, 44 years old,
fell into an open sewer at Altoona,
Pa., and hurt himself. He was
Pennsylvania railroad machinist.
Thomas Hineman, an alleged thief, |
under arrest at Chester, W. Va., es-|
i 1 caped from the lock-up and is stil at |
The Tillman resolution was: zd b ! = z
large. .
Harry J. Harvey TL Ne w Castle,
Pa., reported to officials that his wife
and a boarder had
He said that $75 in cash
! was also taken from the house.
Tillman contended himself |
in which he |
duced the resolution but for the taunts |
of Mr. Hale.
The American squadron, command- |
ed by Rear Admiral
sailed from. Tangier for
Edward F. Hasen,
Sigsbee,
Algiers.
TWO KILLED.
president of a
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Thieves ransacked the home of H.
H. Wolf, a farmer living near Mani-
fold, Pa., securing much booty.
Wolf places his loss at $2,000.
Andrew I.. Eaton, President of the
Crescent Belt Fastener Company,
committed suicide in the Vanderbi:
Hotel, New York, by taking poison.
Henry C. Frick, in an interview,
says Pittsburg real estate is booming,
and that general prosperity is every-
where, with no indication of a
change in the situation.
Roland, the 8-year-old son of Wil-
liam Powell, of East Liverpool, O..|
was run over and killed by a street |
Result of a Freight Train Collision at | car.
Newton Falls, O.
Two men were killed and a third
fatally injured in a rear-end collision
the Mahoning Valley western
| branch of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road at Newton Falls, O. The dead |
| are Peter Laughlin and Thomas
Blainey, both of Cleveland. Michael
Berry of Kent will die.
| freight train was standing on the main |
| track
Flind- |
The party |
| on board the launch was surprised by |
| the vlacks
| native boy,
and massacred. except a
who jumped overboard and
| escaped.
Seven men were kiled by a snow-
slide at a mining camp near Alta,
| Utah.
Pittsburg’s Old City Hall Burned.
Fire which broke out about 12:20
| o’clock in the morning in a pile of
baskets lving beside Wilson's restaur-
| ant, at 430 Market street, completely
destroyed the old market house
building on Market street, Pittsburg,
containing historic Old City hall, in
which many notable gatherings have
| been held in recent years.
At Piedmont, W
YW. va.,
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| d iwic
| kille
led
The first section of an eastbound
when the second, failing to see
the flagman, crashed into the ca-
boose. The two men killed were
boilermakers in the caboose. Berry
was the fireman of the second sec-
tion.
Two Railroaders Killed in Wreck.
Engineer W. S. Taylor and Brake-
man Edward E. Rockman are dead,
and T. J. Eden, fireman, is missing
as the result of a head on collision
| between a northbound through freight
| Air Line railroad near Mina, Ga.
and a switch engine on the Seaboard
W.
F. Head, a switchman, was fatally
scalded. The accident is said to have
been caused by alleged carelessness
of the crew of the switch engine.
Odell Company Loses Petition.
| David Marshall,
|
The injunction secured some weeks
ago restraining the Western
Union |
has appointed January 25 as the day |
of prayer for schools and colleges
| throughout the country. Special
Telegraph company from removing |
the stock exchange tickers from the
offices of W. J. Odell company, of!
Cincinnati, was dissolved by the Cir-|
cuit court, to which the case had
been carried on appeal from the Com-
An arrest of judg-
that the case may
h Ohio S
unrame
John Ziccarelli was killed by a
shifting engine at Salem, O. He was
an Italian crossing watchman, 45
years old, and leaves a family in|
Italy.
George Washington was probably
fatally stabbed in a fight at Johns-
town, Pa. His alleged assailant,
was arrested.
The Hotel Darlington, at Darling-
ton, Pa., was ransacked by thieves
who secured wearing apparel,
shotguns, a rifle and other goods.
Following the charge that the Mas-
sachusetts savings bank commission-
ers neglected to inspect such insti-
tutions as the Provident.
and Banking company of
which failed recently, W. E.
and James O. Oiis, the commissioners
have presented their resignations to
Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., who has ac- |
cepted them.
The Southern railway has awarded
a contract for the Johnson City rail-
way, an extension of the Southern to
run from Embreeville, Tenn., to Mar-
ion, N. C., a distance of about 90 |
miles.
Fixes Day of Prayer.
The general assembly of the Pres-
byterian church in the United States
prayer will also be offered for an in- |
crease in the number
for the ministry.
The Jefferson cou
y reported after
as recently thrashed
two |
Securities |
Boston, |
Locke |
of candidates |
Chicago’s Greatest Merchant a
Victim of Pneumonia.
WORLD’S RICHEST MERCHANT
Foundation of His Wealth Laid Dur-
ing Civil War—Passes Through
the Great Fire of 1871.
Marshall Field of Chicago, million-
aire merchant and a leader in the
drygoods tradé of the world, died at
the Holland house, New York after
an illness extending over more. than
a week beginning with a bad cold and
developing quickly into pneumonia
which affected both lungs.
‘Marshall Field, merchant and fi-
nancier, was born in Conway, Mass.,
August, 1835. He was of Puritan de-
scent, his earliest American ancest-
ors having settled In New England
about 1650. His father was a farmer,
and he received -the thorough in-
dustrial training of a New England
country boy, and with it a common
school and academic education.
At the age of 17 he went to Pitts-
field, in his native State, as a clerk
in a drygoods store, and in 1856, soon
after attaining his majority, removed
to Chicago. Entering the employ of
Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., one oi
the pioneer mercantile houses. of the
voung Western city, he rendered such
valuable service to his employers that
in 1860 he was admitted to a partner-
ship.
This partnership being subsequent-
ly dissolved, the firm of Field, Palmer,
& Leiter was formed in 1865. Two
years later Mr. Palmer retired and the
business, which had by that time as-
sumed vast proportions, was con-
Field, Leiter & Co. At that date Mr.
Field purchased Mr. Leiter’s interest,
and has since continued the business
as Marshall Field & Co.
Prior to the Chicago fire in 1871 the
sales of the establishment of which
Mr. Field was the head amounted to
$12,000,000 .a year! Since that time
the sales have steadily increased until
they reached in 1895 $35,000,000 a
year.
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The Chicago fire destroyed for
Mr. Field and his associates proper-
ty valued at $3,500,000. ; .
Marshall Field was one of the
world’s richest men, his wealth be-
ing estimated at anywhere from $100,-
000,000 to $200,000,000.
Mr. Field was twice married, his
first wife having died several years
ago. Mrs. Field left two children,
Ethel, now’ married, and living at
Leamington, England, and Marshall
® | Field, Jr., who accidentally shot him-
| self, November 22, 1905, and died five
| days later. September 5, 1905, Mr.
| Field was married in London to Mrs.
Arthur J. Caton of Chicago. Mrs.
Field has lost two husbands within
12 months. Just one year ago yester-
day her former husband, Arthur Ca-
ton, died, at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York.
Marshall Field was the richest mer-
| chant in the world. He was also a
great philanthropist, but that fact is
not advertised; rather, it is kept in
the background as much as possible.
He gave most liberally to deserving
| charitable institutions of Chicago,
2 | put no definite knowledge of his muni-
ficence can be obtained.
GOVERNOR WHIPS CONVICT
pi Legislature.
Governor Vardaman, in a recent
message to the Mississippi dLegisla-
ture, charged that body to make a
thorofigh investigation of the State
| convict system. Governor Vardaman
a convict® at the
executive mansion for making an im-
pudent remark while blacking his
shoes, according to an interview
| gave.
The governor said he
conviet, then,
| Affair to Be Investigated by Mississip-
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kicked the
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| him a sound thrashing. This act.is |
| to be investigated by the legislative
| committee which was appointed on
| the governor's recommendation.
RAISES POINT IN LAW
| Fairmont Coal Company Sued for |
| ‘ $10,000 Damages.
The Fairmont Coal Company has |
| been sued in the United’States court |
at Clarksburg, W. Va.,, by B. W.
| Coon, a resident of Ohio, for $10,- |
300. The case involves a point of law
and in the courts of West Virginia,
has been decided in favor of the coal
company.
Coon claimed damages on
ground that .the coal company dam-
| aged the surface of his farm by re-
moving the coal and not having suffi-
| cient supports for the surface, which
| fell in, thereby rendering the land
| valueless.
Miners May Strike.
| Unless the bituminous coal opera- |
tors grant the miners in the Pennsyl- |
| vania, Ohio and Illinois districts an
| advance in the wage a gigantic strike !
| will be declared Aprl 1.
DEATH OF MARSHALL FIELD]
ducted until 1881 under the name of |
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BODIES FOUND THE RYNS
Opinion of Officers: is That ‘Wife and
Children Were Kitled and
House Fired.
Seven persons, all members of the
family of Charles Ayer, retished in a
fire which destroyed Ayer’ farm
house, near Pembroke, N. H. The
bodies of a child and of Ayers’'s
mother-in-law have been found in the
ruins. Mrs. Ayers and four childr ren
are missing.
Late in the day vor was found in
a dying condition oh the Northford
turnpike, in the: roy of Chichester.
There was a bultet in his head.. He
died soon afterward.
The victims of the tragedy were:
Charles F. Aver, aged 43, killed him-
self by shooting; Mrs. Addie Ayer, hig
wife; Mrs. Isaac Lakeman, Ayer’s
mother-in-law; Flossie Ayer, aged
12; Aifred Ayer, aged 10; Bernice
Ayer, aged 6;
a girl baby.
The theory of the county authori-
ties is that Ayer was the murder, but
Andrew Ayer, aged 4;
they nave been umable to find any
evidence to indicate the, methods
employed to wipe out the family:
Whether the victims weve shot of
killed by other jneans has not been
ascertained. Only charred fragments
of .two of the victims have been re-
covered, although persons who visit-
ed the scene of the fire vbserved
other charred bodies in the smoking
ruins.
The fire occurred about 9 o'clock in
the morning, and Ayer drove up to
the home of his sister, Mrs. George
‘Bailey, in the town of Chichester, six
miles from his home, just after 10
o’clock. He remained at Mrs. Bail-
ev’s place during the afternoon, and
when informed. that his buildings
had been burned manifested some’
agitation. A moment later he drew a
revolver and pointing it at his temple
fired and fell unconscious. He died
that night. x
FRANCE ELECTS PRESIDENT
President of the Senate Elected Lou-
bet’s Successor.
M. Clement Armand Falliers, presi-
dent of the senate, was elected preési-
dent of the republic of France, Janu-
ary 17, being chosen on the first bal-
lot at the joint ballot at the session
of the senate and chamber of depu-
He received 449,
ties at Versailles.
votes to 371 for M. Doumer.
M. Fallieres was born November 6,
1841, .at Mezimn, . department ‘of Lot-
et-Garonne. In 1876 he was elected
to the chamber of deputies as a Re-
publican and affiliated himself with
the Republican: left group in the
chamber.
as an orator and was re-elected in
1877 and in 1878. In 1880 M. Fallieres
was named as under secretary to the
minister of the interior and he was
again re-elected to the assembly in
He retired from the ministry”
1881.
at the time of the fall of the Jules
Ferry Cahinet, but returned to pow-
er the following year and was made
president of:the council and ad inter-
im minister of foreign affairs. Sub-
sequently M. Fallieres was suecess-
ively minister of public instruction,
minister of the interior-and minister
of justice. He was elected senator
in 1890, a position which he has ‘held
since that time, and was elected to
the .presidency..of the senate in 1899.
He was re-elected in 1900 and was
again re-elected January 11 of the
present year. we
CAPITAL NEWS NOTES
Senator Knox favored the imprison-.
ment of Poultney Bigelow for defying
the power of the United States sen-
ate in refusing to answer questions.
James Brown Scott of California,
professor of law at ; Columbia Uni-
versity, New York, has been appoint-
ed solicitor of the State Department to
succeed Judge Penfield, resigned.
Secretary Bonaparte approved the
sentence of dismissal imposed by
court-martial at Annapolis in the case’
of Midshipman Trenmor Coffin on con-
| viction of ‘hazing and ordered his dis-
taking a broom, gave
missal from the academy
The Senate Conaittce on Judiciary
agreed to report favorably the nomi-
nation of George W. Atkinson of West
Virginia to be Judge of the United
| | States Court of Claims.
Buildings and Grounds reported fav-
$100,000 °
for a new Federal building at Blue-
The Senate Committee on Public
i orbly a bill appropriating
| field, W. Va.
The retirement from active service
| of Rear Admiral H. N. Manney has
been announced by the Navy De-
partment to take effect next Monday,
| when he will be succeeded as Chief
the !
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of the Bureau of Equipment by
Captain W. S. Cowles, a brother-in-
law of President Roosevelt.
Eight-Hour Law Eliminated.
The House Committee on Appro-
priations reported an urgent deficién-
cy bill. A provision in the bill di-
rects that the eight-hour law shall
not apply in the construction of the
| Panama canal or on ‘the canal zone.
| The provision of the last deficiency
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President | bill carries $15,215,503.
Mitchell will lead the struggle of the | cludes $5,340,786. to carry on canal
act to prevent the incurring of de-
ficiencies has been amended so as
to prevent such deficiencies unless in
case of emergencies that could not
! have been reasonably anticipated. The
This in-
soft coal miners for a wage increase. | work until June 30, 1906; also $1,500,-
velopments at the first session of
in Indianapolis.
Philippine Tariff Bill Passed.
ed by the House substantially as
| came from the Ways and Means com-
| mittee. The vote was 258 to 71. Rice
was made subject to the same tariff
as sugar and tobacco, 25 per cent. of
{| the Dingley rates, and one or
changes were made as to language.
Michael Powaski, a Russian miner,
was held up at Irwin, Pa., and robbed
of 8. The Russian had been mak-
ing a displav of his money.
This was one of a series of de-| 000 for the collecting of revenue from
Tei} : : | customs for
the United Mine Workers’ convention |
The Philippine tariff bill was pass- |
it |
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| Washington, made its
calls
two |
1906; for pensions, $3,-
500,000; for the naval establishment,
| $1,014,565.
Want Discrimination Prohibited.
The report of the committee on
interstate commerce law of the Na-
tional Board of Trade, in session at
report. It
upon Congress to enact such
legislation as will prevent abuses in
transportation methods, and that tke
system of rebating by railroads be
prohibited. The report was adopted
by the convention.
At Uniontown,
ti was arrested
e stealing at
Pa.
on a (
Fairmont,
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