The Somerset County star. (Salisbury [i.e. Elk Lick], Pa.) 1891-1929, May 10, 1906, Image 2

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    FTTEMPT T0 ILL OFFER
Governor-General of Moscow is
Injur d by a Bomb.
ASSASSIN WAS KILLED
Aide de Camp and Sentry Met Death
Also—Severai Plots Have Besn
Discovered.
A bomb was thrown at the ecar-
riage of Vice Admiral Doubasoff,
Governor General of Moscow, as he
was being driven to the palace Sun-
day. He was wounded in the foot
and his aide de camp and a sentry
were killed.
bomb was also killed.
officer’s uniform.
Governor General Doubasoff was re-
turning in an open carriage from the
Uspenski Cathedral, and the outrage
took place outside the carriage en-
trance to his palace. Several by-
standers were injured.
According to the route decided up-
on in advance, the Governor General
should have returned to the palace
by the side enirance, but during the
He wore an
drive he changed his route and there- |
by ran into the peril he was seeking
to avoid.
Vice Admiral Doubasoff’s life was
saved by the poor aim of his would-
be assassin.
the pavement several paces to the
rear of his carriage, hurling the muti-
lated corpse of the terrorist several
yards backward, and tearing off one
arm and the face of an aide who was
descending from the carriage. Gov-
ernor Doubasoff was thrown from his
carriage and under the horses’ heels.
His hack was burned and his leg
bruised, but he was able to walk un-
assisted into the palace.
The coachman’s skull was fractured
and he was taken to a hospital.
It is thought the assassin was the
student in whose room a bomb ex-
ploded Saturday, killing three accom-
plices, but who at the time was
watching the palace from a room .in
the hotel opposite.
Vice Admiral Doubasoff was ap-
pointed Governor General of Moscow
in December last. He is also an aid
of the Emperor and a member of the
Council of the Empire. Since his
appointment as Governor General
several plots against him have been |
uncovered.
SUGAR TRUST INDICTED
New York Central Railroad is
Charged Also With Rebating.
The April Federal grand jury. at
New York City handed down seven
sealed indictments in the sugar re-
bating cases. The indictments are
against the following:
The New York Central railway.
The American Sugar Refining Com- |
pany.
The New
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River Railroad Company and Nathan |
Gilford, vice president of the
pany.
The American Sugar Refining Com-
pany, of New York, and C. Goodlee,
Edgar and Edwin Earle, the latter two |
com- |
being wholesale sugar dealers of De- |
troit, Mich.
The New York Central & Hudson |
River Rallroad Company and Nathan
Guilford, vice president, and F. E.
Pomeroy, general traffic manager.
The American Sugar Refining Com-
pany and the American Refining Com- |
pany, of New York, and C. Goodlee,
Edgar and Edwin Earle, Nathan Fuil-
Farle.
The first six indictments were found
under the ‘“Elkins anti-trust
which provided penalties of a fine
not exceeding $10,000 or
ment not exceeding two years, for
giving, granting, applying for or ac-
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cepting any rebate or concession from |
the regular freight rates, as pub-
lished by a railroad company as a
common carrier.
The seventh indictment found
| northbound
| train off the track at Sodus, La.
KILLED BY A BOMB
Russian Students in Paris Engaged
in Dynamite Plots.
A bomb explosion occurred in the
forest of Vincennes. mear Paris, kill-
ing a Russian named Striga and dan-
gerously wounding a companion nam-
ed Sokoloff.
The two men were proceeding
through the woods, each carrying a
bomb, with the evident purpose of
hiding them for future use. While
so doing the bomb which Striga car-
ried exploded killing him instantly.
Sokoloff was struck by fragments of
the bomb and fearfully lacerated.
The explosion occurred in the out-
skirts of the forest, on the road bor-
dering on the suburban town of
Charenton, several persons witnessing
it. Striga’s right hand was torn off,
his right leg broken and his ab-
domen torn open. The police found
a revolver in Striga's pocket.
Striga and Sokoloff both were stu-
dents of the School of Mines and
members of the Rusaian student's
union. They also belonged to the
Revoliitionary society. Neither of
the men has figured in the police
registars of suspected foreignors.
The residences of Russian revolu-
tionists have been searched, leading
to the discovery of alleged incrimin-
atory documents. Two cousins of
Sokceloff were arrested.
BLUNDER CAUSES WRECK
Ten Killed and Thirty-Six Injured
by Collision.
Ten persons are dead as a result of
the head-on collision on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Clover Creek
Junction. Six were killed outright
and four died as a result of injuries
received. About 36 of the passen-
gers and train crew were, seriously
injured. The dead are: J. W. Wag-
rer, Mifflin, Pa.; postal clerk; J.
W. Cox, Downingtown, Pa., postal
clerk; Schultz, Washington, D.
C., postal clerk; —— Jones, residence
not known, postal clerk; F. G. Hard-
er, Harrisburg, brakeman; Mrs.
Trinkle, Philadelphia; Max Tarlove,
South Norwalk, Conn.; D. Conover,
traveling salesman, New York; un-
known man; J. W. Herr, Jersey City,
baggage master.
The trains were known as No. 18,
the Chicago mail, east-bound, and
the first or Chicago section of the
Chicago and St. Louis express, west-
bound. With the exception of the
last named man all of those killed
were on the east-bound train.
all of the injured were likewise on
the east-bound trip.
The official report of the collision
lays the blame on Engineer J. T
who was hauling No.
west.
He received orders, it is declared,
to wait at the double track at Carlin
to permit No. 18 to pass, but he mis-
understood them,
the single track.
COW AND CALF ON TRACK
Texas Pacific Train is Wrecked and
Two of Crew Are Killed.
A cow and a calf threw most of a
Texas Pacific passenger
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locomotive and
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JTINDARD MUST ANGWER
President Arraigns the Oil Octo-
pus in Special Message.
LODGE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
All Oil Pipe Lines Placed Under
Jurisdiction of Inter-State Com-
merce Commission.
President Roosevelt in a special
message to Congress, made a drastic
arraignment of the Standard Oil com-
pany as a gigantic monopoly disre-
garding the rights of all competitors,
profiting enormously by conspiring
with railroads to receive secret re-
bates and deriving great advantage
through not being amenable to the
Inter-State Commerce Commission.
The President announced that steps
to prosecute the
Standard Oil Company under the El-
kins anti-rebate ~ act; urged the
speedy passage of the Knox bill, lim-
iting immunity granted the represen-
tatives of corporations, and especially |
asking for such legislation as will
give the Inter-State Commerce Com-
mission control of the company.
The special message had been so
timed as to have an important bear-
ing on the amendment of Senator
l.odge to the Hepburn rate bill, mak- |
ing pipe lines common
Within two hours after the mes-
carriers. |
sage had been read to the Senate the |
Lodge amendment was unanimously !
adopted, 75 Senators .voting for it,
and all pipe lines carrying oil were
placed under the jurisdiction of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission as
common carriers. This means that
hereafter the Standard Oil Company
must publish all its rates and submit
them to the commission for approval,
and they can be increased or dim-
inished as the commission considers
proper. The oil monopoly will be
under precisely the same restraints as
railroad corporations.
H. H. Rogers and John D. Arch-
bold of the Standard Oil
made an extended answer to the
President, denying secret rates or
illegal methods and declaring their
company is the victim of ‘‘the man
with a muck rake.”
WILL INVESTIGATE REBATES
Department of Justice Will Bring Ac-
tion Against Corporations.
The statement is authoritatively
made that the department of justice
wiil immediately begin an investi-
gation of the relations of the so-call-
ed oil] trust and a number of rail-
roads with a view of determining
| whether there have been violations of
| the anti-rebate law.
The basis for this "investigation
| will be the information recently sub-
coaches, except the chair car and a |
sleeping car, were thrown down
embankment.
firemen were
were severely
were hurt.
killed,
injured and
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Superior Judge Murasky, of
foll, Nathan F. Pomeroy and Edwin Francisco, who has been sitting as
an |
The engineer and the |
two passengers
several |
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mitted to the President in a report
of Commissioner Garfield of the
bureau of corporations, which is
soon to be made public. This re-
port, it is learned, deals only with
the subject of rebates and does not
go into the questions of violations of
the anti-trust law.
If it is found rebates have been
given by the railroad and accepted
by the so-called oil trust, steps will
be at once taken, it is asserted, to
bring the matter before the grand
| juries in the localities where the al-
committing Judge of insane persons |
since April 18, has passed on the
sanity of 83 persons whose minds
have been deranged by fright.
ious consequences has occurred
Zululand. Mr. Stainbank, the British
Magistrate at Mahlabitini,
has been killed by Zulus while col-
lecting taxes. :
In diplomatic circles there is ap-
prehension that war between Vene-
Zululand, | _;
! tion.
leged violations took place, with a
view to prosecutions in the courts.
It is not thought the department of
| justice in conducting its inquiries will
A trag ‘hi J or- | require the services of any one out-
1 owrage which may have = hn side of the department proper and the
other
direc-
United States attorneys and
officers under its immediate
Garfield
It is stated Mr. in con-
| ducting his investigation, traveled ex-
against Guilford, Pomeroy, Edgar and | zuela and Colombia is almost inevit- |
Bdwin Earle, charges them with hav-
ing collectively conspired to violate
the provisions of the Xlkins anti-
trust law.
Alleged Fraud Involves Millions.
The American Bond Company, a
3,000,000 oorporation with palatial
offices in the Chamber of Commerce
building, Chicago, was thrown into
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the hands of a receiver, through ac- |
tion of the Federal court. Two ap-
plications for receivers for the com-
pany also have been filed in the State
courts, and one compiainant, William |
Sewell, alleged that the concern, on
the face of its statements of business
conditions, is promoting what will
prove more than a $1,000,000 fraud,
as its present liabilities will exceed
its assets by that enormous total.
Will Sign 1903 Scale.
It was announced in Columbus, O., |
that the Lorain Coal and Dock Com- |
pany, owning mines in Eastern Ohio, |
which employ about 2,600 miners, had
reached an agreement with its men
and would sign the 1903 scale. The
Torain comnpany is owned by Thomas
and Edward Johnson, of Columbus.
They have not been allied with the
‘‘stand pat’ operators of Ohio.
President Palma and Senor Capote
have been proclaimed elected Presi-
dent and Vice President, respective-
ly, of the Republic of Cuba.
LOSE $13,150,000
Hartford Insurance Companies Figure
Up Liabilities Resulting From
‘Frisco Disaster.
The estimated net losses of the
Hartford fire insurance companies in
the recent San Francisco fire, as
given out by the officials are: Aetna,
$2,700,000; Hartford Fire, $5,750,000;
National Fire, $1,500,000; Orient,
$700,000; Phoenix, $1,500,000; Scot-
tish Union and National, $1,000,000;
total, $13,180,060.
renominated
able. Acting President Gomez re-
pudiates the treaty affecting river
rights that was conducted to conclus-
ion by American Ministers Russell.
Congressman B. P. Birdsall was
by Republicans of the
Third district of Iowa. Governor
Cummins was endorsed in resc'utions
as were also the Iowa delegates in
and President Roosevelt.
Admiral Campion, commander of
the ¥rench sauadron now at New
York, visited West Point.
a reception at the- quarters of
Brigadier General Mills and a review
of the battalion of cadets.
The National Machine Tool Build-
ers’ Asscciation, in convention at
City, decided on 'a 5 per
raise in the price of tools for
he ensuing year.
REVOLT NOT SUPPRESSED
German East African Natives Lose 400
in Battle With Troops.
lL.ate news from German East Afri-
ca contradict the official announce-
ment of February 2 that the insur-
rection had been suppressed.
The Berlin “Lokal Anzeiger’s”
Dar-Es-Salaam correspondent gives
reports of a series of engagements
extending from March 13 to April 26
in which the natives lost over 400
men and the Germans 13.
$33.22 PER HEAD IN U. 8S,
Per Capita Money Circulation Beats
All Former Records.
The per capita circulation of the
United States has reached the unpre-
cedented record of $32.22. This is
based on a population of 84,428,000.
The former maximum record was
$31.85, attained February 1 of this
year. On April 1 of this year the per
capita circulation was $31.75, on
March 1 $31.72 and on January 1
$31.82.
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tensively and visited all important
sections covered by the oil trust,
from New England to California and
the south, and the evidence obtained
is amply sufficient to warrant the de-
partment of justice in taking the
course decided upon.
OPERATORS WILL FIGHT
Plan Campaign Against Miners
Central Pennsylvania.
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Company |
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Representatives of 10 of the prin- |
cipal coal and coke companies in the | L ; : :
bit . | resenting an aggregate wealth in ex-
itummous |
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Central Pennsylvania
fields whose employes have quit work
pending a settlement of the
ences existing between the men and
the officers of the Erie & Western
Coal Company met in Philadelphia and
mapped out a plan of
against the claims of the mine work-
ers. At the conclusion of the meet-
{ing the following statement was made: |
“We will fight it out at whatever |
cost. There will be no settlement and
we will not recede from our position.
This is final and is the unanimous de-
cision of the operators.”
Miners Will Not Strike.
There will be no strike in the an-
thracite coal mines.
return to work under the old award
of the anthracite commission for a
period of time to be determined by
the operators and representatives of
the miners.
Longshoremen Strike.
Dispatches from ILake Michigan
and Lake Erie ports indicate that
there has been an almost unanimous
response among the unions to Presi-
dent Keefe's strike order. Unofficial
estimates set the figure at 20,000.
It is estimated that about 40 vessels
are tied up in Milwaukee, and that
800 men are idle as a result of the
longshoremen’s strike. The strike
of the longshoremen put an effective
embargo on Lake Hrie commerce and
it is expected traffic will stop at all
upper lake ports.
campaign |
The miners’ con- |
vention at Seranton, Pa., decided to |
differ- |
on
MANY INJURED IN ONSLAUGHTS
Soidlers Suffer From Attacks of the
Rioters—Police and Military Act
With Toleration.
The long-dreaded May
to bring the revolution which in-
flammatory journals predicted in
France, but none the less it brought
scenes of extreme violence.
The labor districts, which thous-
ands of troops controlled with diffi-
culty, and even central portions of
Paris have taken on the appearance
of a seige, with regimenis of infan-
try and cavalry camped about the
Arc de Triomphe, the Bourse, the
Bank of I'rance and the great rail-
way station, while military senti-
nels paced before the banks and pri-
vate establishments. The main
thoroughfares in the residential por-
tion of Paris remain tranquil.
In the West End, far removed from
riotous scenes, people were disposed
to treat the evenis in the labor quart-
ers as harmless effervescence.
was, however, much more than that. |
Throughout the afternoon dragoons,
republican guards and cuirassiers
charged disorderly masses, sweeping
the Place de la Republique and the
board Boulevard de Magenta. To-
i ward nightfall cavalry charged with
drawn swords and many persons were |
wounded on both sides. The mani-
festants overturned omnibuses
threw up liasty barricades.
Over 1,000 arrests were made dur-
ing the day. At no time did the
demonstration reach the magnitude
of a revolt, but was rather a leader-
less tumult in which the serious la-
bor element, struggling with revolu-
tionists, anarchists... roughs and a
large number of the curious, was
r confused.
Reports from the provinces show
that there were violent demonstra-
tions at Marseilles, Brost, Bordeaux,
St. Etienne, Lyons and Rouen. At
Marseilles processions carrying
flags and creating
came in collision with the troops and
a number. of persons were injured.
At Bordeaux processions paraded the
streets singing revolutionary songs
and the cavalry charged them, wound-
ing many.
At Lyons a crowd of manifestants
attacked the street cars, breaking
the glass windows down, whereupon |
rioters,
There
many
the dragoons charged the
wounding a ‘large numbetf.
were lesser disturbances at
points.
WORKERS STRIKE
IRON
Move Promises to Stop Work on Large
Buildings in Chicago.
Just as the wreckers started the
demolition of vld structures to make
room for $6,000,000 of new buildinzs |
in the Loop district of Chicago, a
strike was called which promises
cago.
One thousand structural iron work-
ers, following orders dropped
and their idleness will precipitate the
first important labor disturbance in
the building trades since the 1%00
lockout.
promiscs to stop nearly
of a large
The strike
all construction work
character.
Boston Wool Market.
Foreign wools attracted the trades
this week in the absence of domestic,
which are especially scarce. The bulk
of sales has been in foreign cross-
breds, both South American and |
Australian, and a demand was noted
for New Zealand. The
Territories are so scarce that there
are hardly enough sales to make a |
wools are quiet, al-
transactions of a
at 60 to 62c are made.
price. Pulled
though some
erior grade
TLieading quotations follow: Ohio and!
and above, 34 at
Pennsyvivania XX
S3414c; X, 32 to 33¢: No. 1 and hali-
blood, 29 to 40c; one-eighth and one-
fourth blood, 39 to 40c; fine unwash-
ed, 25 to 26c.
Public Debt Statement.
The menthly statement of the pub-
lic debt shows that at the close of
business April 30, 1906. the total
debt, less cash in the Treasury,
amounted to $984,413,247, which isan
increasa for the month of $2,789,805.
FOR LAND FRAUDS
Lumbermen Accused of 2-
frauding Government.
and bankers,
INDICTED
Five
lumbermen ren-
$1,600,000, arrested at
Wis, Federal officers
rga of conspiracy to defraud
of were
by
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| the Government by means of alleged
i land frat
| Thomas Daly.
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is in Oregon.
roy .
The men arrested are
Choate, James Matt, Bray, Benja-
min Doughty, James Doughty and
Each was placed un-
of $2,000 and the hear
to Mav: 31... The cha
in the Federal Grand Jury
indictments under whieh the
were arrested, is conspiracy to
fraud the Federal Government by
having furnished money to Oregon
parties t¢ make entries and
bonds
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| homesteads in Oregon.
A. W. Bell of Donaldsville,
aged 75 years, has been awarded 3$2.-
000 damages by the courts of that
parish in a breach of promise
which he brought against a woman of
the same age.
Lands Sold.
Qil
The Fisher Oil Company has sold |
to the Pure Oil Company all of its |
properties, located
Pennsylvania, Marion,
Monongahela and Tyler
producing
Greene county,
Wetzel,
counties, West Virginia, and in Mon- |
roe, Washington and Belmont coun-
ties, in Southeastern Ohio. The lease-
holds consist of about 20,000 acres in |
the counties named, on which are
300 producing wells with an aggregate
net production of 1,000 barrels a day.
The consideration was $1,000,000.
Day failed
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violent disorder |
to |
tie up the building industry of Chi- |
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firmness of!
the foreign markets is reflected here.
sup- |
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RUSSIAN PREMIER RESIGNS
Czar Supplants Count Witte With
a Reactionary Politician.
NEW MAN IS A WEAKLING
When Fresh Crisis Comes Czar May
Be Obliged to Call Count Out
of Retirement.
Premier Witte has resigned and
former Minister of the Interior Gore-
mykin has succeeded him. Minister
of Justice Akymoff is also booked for
retirement.
M. Goremykin’s elevation to the
premiership created amazement.
He is not only regarded as a reac-
tionary, but the general opinion is
that he is not equal to the task of
facing the coming crisis. Count
Witte’s retirement from public life is
| complete.
There is now no question of his ap-
pointment {o be president of the coun-
cil of the empire. He will again as-
sume the role of a spectator of the
great events which are taking place,
returning to private life, from which
he was summoned last summer to ne-
gotiate the peace of Portsmouth.
{ While reasons of health are assign-
| ed for his retirement, it must be ac-
i cepted as a victory for the reaction-
ists at court.
peror’s purpose as a barrier between
him and the people, during the try-
ing months of the revolution, and now
that the uprising is suppressed and
the treasury again replenished, the
count has been ignominously dis-
| missed.
M. Goremykin
mediore man of insignificant appear-
ance as well as capacity. While for
some time he has been
eral, it was only in contrast with such
men as Von Plehve and H. Sipiagu-
ine, the late interiér minister. He
began his career in the ministry of
| justice, becoming assistant minister,
| fom which post he was called in
| 1895 as a protege of the dowager em-
press, to become minister of the
interior. ’
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| PANIC IN WALL STREET
Prices of Stocks Fall Rapidly
i Enormous Transactions.
Wall street on May 2 passed
through the most exciting crisis since
the great panic of May 9, 1901, when
Northern Pacific sold at 1,000, and
when a short time half the great
banking houses in Wall street were
insolvent. The transactions, aggre-
gating 2.500,000 shares, were the lar-
gest since that memorable day.
Rumors of houses in trouble added
excitement, but investigation
proved them to be the invention vf
the bears. Only one failure was an-
noanced, that of Charles W. Saacke,
which created comparatively little
comment. His total liabilities are
on
i to the
estimated ‘to be between $20,060 and |
$60,000.
Prices crumbled rapidly with each
offering and stocks continued to pour
out in enormous amounts until into
the afternoon, when just before 1
everything they offered was being ab-
sorbed.
The turning point had come: I.ondon
was buying stocks by the thousand.
The banks sent in an abundance of
call money at 4 per cent. In the last
hour a complete change of sentiment
took place and at the close the gen-
eral belief was that the crisis had
passed.
POLICE FIRE ON MOB
thracite Coal Region.
The first serious collision in the an-
thyacite coal
was suspended April 1 occurred at
| Mount Carmel. Pa., between a mob of
idle
‘the state constabulary force, and re-
, sulted in the injuring of 28 men,
three of whom may die. The
turbance was caused by an attack on
al hundred foreigners, who became
incemsed at the presence of the po-
lice. The crowd threw stones at the
officers, who were forced to fire on
the crowd.
IRON STRIKE AT BUFFALO
Ten Thousand Men Demand Increase,
Which is Refused.
All the employes of the iron foun-
dries of Buffalo. Depew, Tonawanda,
and Falls,
Lockport Nijagara
ing
vent out on strike: Thirty-six cor-
porat ;, employing about 1.200
i molde
Altegether about 10,000 employes are
involved.
The cause of the strike is a demand
for an increase of wages for the mold- |
ters and coremakers. The former
want an increase of 20 and the core-
| makers 25 cents a day.
CLARK WILL RETIRE
fontana Senator Not a Candidate
for Re-Election.
a signed statement appearing in
Butte “Miner,” his own paper,
Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, an-
nounces that he is not a candidate
for re-clection to the United States
Senate. He says he will return to
Montana to operate his interests at
the close of the present term.
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| Big Lumber Failure.
The National Lumber Manufactur-
ing Company, having large interests
in West Virginia and Alabama, was
placed in the hands of. a receiver on
{ a petition filed in the United States
District Court at Chicago, by a num-
ber of small creditors. The assets of
| the company are said to be $100,000,
but the liabilities are not given. The
failure of the Bank of America in
Chicago several months ago is said
{to have been responsible for the em-
| harrassment of the lumber company.
Count Witte simply served the em- |
is considered a!
called a lib- |
o'clock the bears began to notice that!
Three Foreigners Shot Down in An- |
regions since mining |
mine workers and a platoon of |
dis- |
a detail of the constabulary by sever-
includ- |
molders, coremakers and helpers, |
and coremakers, are affected. |
ANOTHER TEXAS TORNADO
Three Counties Struck by a Hard
Wind Storm and Much Damage
e
Done.
A tornado swept over parts of
Brown, Wise, Denton and Greyson
counties, Texas, doing damage to
crops and farm property, killing two
persons and probably two others. At
the village of Cowen one house was
destroyed apd a Mrs. Parks killed.
Two other occupants of the house
were badly Injured. Half a dozen
other houses were partially demol-
ished.
At the village of Storey the house
of Joseph Foster was blown down on
the family and the ruins took fire.
Mrs. Foster and the children crawled
out of the ruins safely, but Mr. Fost-
er was pinned down and so badly
burned he died.
At Sherman a Methodist church
was blown down and at Brownwood
several houses were partially wreck-
ed. At the last-named place and in
the surrounding country there was a
terrific fall of hail which did much
damage to all kinds of crops and hurt
much live stock.
Some of the hail stones measured
10 inches in circumference and weigh-
ed eight ounces after having laid on
the ground for a period of 10 min-
utes.
Western Maryland Buys Cars.
The Western Maryland Railroad
Company has awarded a contract for
700 steel coal cars to the Pressed
Steel Car Company of Pittsburg. The
contract represents an outlay of $750,-
000. The cars are to be delivered
{ about the latter part of the year.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
ov. EE. W. Hock was renominated
{ by the Republicans of Kansas.
A band of robbers in the guise of
soldiers robbed the treasury at Dus-
hot, near Tiflis of $117,500.
The bottie blowing plant of the
Evansville, Ind., Glass works burned,
causing a loss of $110,000.
The Norwegian authorities expect
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth to
be present at the coronation of King
Haakon.
James C. Dahlman, Democrat, was
elected mayor of Omaha over Eras-
tus A. Benson, by a surprising ma-
jority.
Sir Henry Taschereau, chief justice
of Canada, has resigned. He prob-
ably will be succeeded by Charles
Fitzpatrick, minister of justice.
The isthmian canal commission met
and decided to ask for an appropria-
tion of $25,438,281 to continue the
construction of the canal during the
| fiscal year ending June 30, 1907.
The Tenth regiment of the Penn-
sylvania volunteers, which was camp-
ed in San Francisco at the time of
the Spanish war, has sent a donation
of $10,000 to the relief committee.
Max Dittrich, a leather worker, of
Dresden, Saxony, who was arrested
recently on the suspicion of murder,
confessed that he had killed eight
persons in the course of seven years.
Steamers which arrived at Leith
i from Iceland, report that Mount Hec-
la has been in eruption, ashes being
scattered cover a wide area. The
disturbance, however, was not ser-
ious.
The Allan Steamship Line has plac-
ed an order with a Glasgow firm for
the construction of a 10,000-ton pas-
senger steamer for the company’s ser-
vice between Liverpool and Glasgow.
Professor Israel C. Russell, aged
54, head of the geology department of
the University of Michigan, died of
| pneumonia. Professor Russell was
widely known as a scientist.
By the explosion of a large quan-
tity of dynamite which they were en-
gaged in thawing out over a fire, four
river drivers were killed and their
| bodies horribly mangled at a point
on the Aristook river, about five miles
above Oxbow, Me.
According to Coroner Walsh of San
Francisco, the deaths in the earth-
{ quake and fire of April 18 will total
1,500 when the debris is cleared away
and a final accounting of the bodies
already recovered and those yet miss-
ing, is made.
| According to a preliminary report
{on the production of anthracite in
| 1906, made public by the United
| States geographical survey, the ton-
| nage during that year was the larg-
jest in the history of the industry.
The amount was 69,339,152 long tons;
value $141,879,900.
New Zealand Offers Aid.
President Roosevelt has gratefully
| declined New Zealand's offer of $25,-
1000 for San Francisco on the ground
{ that outside assistance is unneces-
| sary. Premier Seddon has conse-
| quently sent $6,250 to New Zealand’s
l agent at San Francisco for the relief
| of the New Zealanders there who
| suffered from the earthquake.
One of the first large contracts for
i material for Panama, anticipation of
{ which has led the Pennsylvania, New
| York Central and other systems to
seek lines to gulf ports, has been
{awarded to the Louisville & Nash-
ville, which will haul 20,000 cars of
cement from Louisville to New Or-
leans. The road!s management fig-
ures on putting a car of cement into
| New Orleans every 45 minutes ~ -
L. & N. Gets Panama Contract.
Peasants Dispersed and Two Killed.
A number of peasants invaded the
town of Kaliasin, Russia and de-
manded the release of one of their
number, who had been arrested. The
authorities thereupon summoned
troops, who fired upon the peasants
and dispersed them with their bay-
onets. Two peasants were killed and
one was wounded.
The volcano of Stromboli, after a
period of quiet, is resuming activity
and is emitiing smoke and solid ma-
terial.
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