Excursionists Hurled in Every Di- rection When Trains Crash. | aasit ERROR MADE IN TRAIN ORDER Engineers See Danger Short Dis- tance Ahead and Jump to Safety. A terrible head-on collision between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight train on the Con-! eord division of the Boston & Maine] railroad c-curred four miles north of | Canaan _ .ation early Swmsday: The! catastrophe is attributable to. a ‘mis- take in train dispatcher’s-orders: ! From a demolished passenger coach! there were taken dead and dying and 49 other ps ngers, most of them seriously injured. Nearly: all those who were killed were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Qu2., 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight was given to understand by the operator at Canaan station that had plenty cf time to reach a siding He received, according to the = superin- teadent ‘of the division a copy ©f & telezraph order from the train dis- pateher at Concord. which confused he train numbers 20 and 24. The wreck ecccurred just express had rounded into a streteh of track. hut owing early nrorning mist. neither saw the other's headlight until too late. Idenli nessey, train night he after the sira to engineer it was ight the Timothy Bar, Que.; 7 Shaughne ] Mio Anne St. Pierre, Isle Vorte. Que.; Fred M... Phelps, Ochiltree, Texa Mrs. AE. W¢ Haverhill, 1 South Cort nt bray roti, i ron, N maker, 1i Cionzdoen., child of A; Mra nN. H.; John & The unidentified years old, @ ‘man of 30 years, a man others. broken ater al Twenty tw. 3 8 bodies were moved to during the day. The dull and in the mornfains, with a lumbered ‘ vest Canaan usual On the other side cf the curve the Quebec express, sliding down with her load: of pas- four heavy sleepers in freight train was on of track, about a and the Quebec oXx- press had rounded the curve when the two engincers saw the headlights nf the opposite train burst cut of fog. Both engineers set their brakes ana then jumped, while the two great lo- comotives” erashed into each 9ther. and, locked in a firm embrace, rolled into the ditch. The hageage fierled back into fike a great from end 0 rear end of when it stopped at of the smoker, which passenger coach, it clined. Only a few Broken in the smoking car and non? af the Pullmans wore damaged. But the ill-fated passenger was crowded with more than 50 poeo- ple. Shortly before the accident a few of ithe men had gone back into the smoking car in the rear, leaving the women to get a little sleep in the sire seats. SLIT cd de Castle four and 1 naa 55: 01d an Concord was Western morning SCOT up speed. was the single Uu sengers the rear. The a straight piece mile in length, ack and in: the rear was passenger coach tore it asunder did so tha up so that forward end behind the 3 well in- windows were ear the and As it the ear rose rani. end coach ight Tou- in & | ex- Fifty persons were injured at fon, 11, by the explosion of gas the hardware store of Wheeler Co. while firemen were trying to tingnish a blaze in the basement. BATTLESHIP'S TRIAL a Trifle Below the Required Speed of 18 Knots. battleshiv Kansas, sis has just completed Although its Vermont Kancas The to the Vermont, its speed trials. record #5 slightly below that of the and ‘a trifle below the 18 knot which the contract required, is said at the Navy Department that its re- cord is entirely satisfactory. Capt. Southerland, president of trial beard, on board the ship, ported to the Navy Departmeht wireless, via Provincetown, Mass.: “Kansas finished successfully her steaming and gZun trials. Average speed for four hours with full power was 17.81 knots and for 24 hours’ en- | durance trial, 17.09 knots.” speed; Three VRiioings in China. Mosze, Mokak and Fankoi, market! towns in the Kwai Zuan district of! the Chun Chow. prefecture, report] simultaneous uprisings of natives The insurgents bore banners on | which was inscribed: “The peopie| are driven by the ficials to rise.” Many Killed in the Alps. The toll of summer victims of Alp- ine accidents is the heaviest ever recorded. Eighty persons were kill- ed and 22 injured in 90 accidents this year, as against the previous record, 76 fatalities in 1906 in 71 accidents. Thirty-eight killed were guides; 3 persons spending vacations in the Alps and the remainder native flow- er gatherers, etc. Three-quarters of the fatalities were caused by f3lls aver precipices. ‘The others were due to av Satunhes snow-storms and Yohtain Za Nin { lute a { ious of the |S Lat at i bridegroom | event of the verdict being | aker RAPID OCEAN TRANSIT. New Vessel Breaks the Record from Queenstown to New York. Deeorat bunting from stern. hel ed. with stem to 1 he eraft, ania, |] other of the abe 8:0 12 from Qu made t to Sandy inntes, record on 7 and 25 I 1" { am on completing enstown. 1€ hassage Hock: in 5 nashing the that course minutes. made” tle same--line. She verage.. speed’ of» knots an and on one~day ed- a ae of 241, kaots. Sdveral itinres in ffs: fast big lineis, ran into dense fox and- had” to slow up. But for she would havé.made the 53239 ess than five days. Dospite I splendid unarder cannot the seas. The Hamburg-Ame rd of 6iil run, made uth in 1901, a Lloyd “hoat, ee h from Rock 54. Im best of 5 1 by main- 23: reach- hours cana of ai neg an tint thet: hanks this pas ] 1 performance he tiled Deutsc an miles Gc new C he Gi the the reco day av's as queen land of still holds a single irom Dyno German | Rais cae ever 790 feet one ¢nd, 100 the Hor fee 10 brecdith moulded) ‘Then they car, which mail; which safe. the zat EMP regular the messenger On finding igl 1W aymen gistered parting In view Norther xpress Company suffer an; the: Great Railway ans Las the following offer of all peints in the West “The Great N Company will pay the the arrest and conv the engagad near Rexior of Senior ne the safe 1 helved thems mail and atter disappeared: did not No ne hera i tor of up of on the 1967.” persons jts train, nmoraing FOUND MENTALLY WEAK Edward Ward Vanderpiit is e—Case to B= Fought Highest Court. Edward Ward Vanderbilt, husband the head of the Drooklvn Spiritual- declared mentally incompe- | a sheriff j i verdict was Vanderbilt, jumberman, who for a commission father hagen to his = propert bride. Attorrey ‘Rosenbe Miss Vanderbilt, said once for a trustee for his father. At vme- time. he make moticns for the setting aside tlie ik conveyances, hy which transferred me Brook: yn il io his bride. and 8 - .an- of his new will, sider the which two Long Island | most vf his cash are given of Pepp2r-vVan- Sudged Insan to daughter made of lune transfer to his erva her | : Qi when bulk the | middle-aged | re A 5 apply t's iid ollie CA ha ne the of 1 nulnient terms of farms and into the Keeping derbilt. Although Attorney clined to discuss this that he will ask for the of the wedding of V Audet Mrs. Pepper on the ground that was not in a proper to appreciate the step Mrs. Rosenberg point, 1t the | stats | of mind he | tool. | Lawver John D. Sturgis, of coun- | sel for Mr. Vanderbilt, said that in’} confirmad, the case would be appealed. A motion to endorse Senator For- for his stand for the negro in | the Brownsville, Texas, riots was | most forcibly defeated by veterans of | the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, sembled in reunion at Newark, O. as- Twelve Hurt in Wreck. A Southern railway local passenger train was derailed near Tyron, N. C., and 12 persons injured, two serious- ly. The tender of the engine, baggage and express cars were turn- ed over and three coaches l1aft the tracks. The cause of the accident is not known. mail, Four persons were killed and three dangerously injured in a firedamp explosion- in the M<=rlenback mine willl jing | creditors I Lisnnox's r12 wr | the town, HERDISH ON WAR VESSEL is Carmed Out to Avoid Grzat Disaster. Hat She! SQa- | Cimmandai of cammended The! Commander Gunner L. €. Hull and n, C. Rowe, W. C. Bar- L.. Gratton, H. A. Linder- C. Sheppard, C. and L.. Oyster, saved Indiana from. destruc according to announce- the Navy Department; Thes2 entered two magazines next to were afire and death, though that - the upon the ammu- explosion the ves- Cross, gang eship Sent. Di Taz LY ont mail of an oved eague undergoing resulted caused by of eoal, the >-inch ‘cording to tha usual men were at was 3pou- The ving ent 12- and the auiet drill. were ratil axtinguizhed. shell wav Most not after The rooms They of comida Trt anda NT el Od FANS MARCH iN Mem bers tgnore Republic | NY he nosth their Thousands of spectators covered watched the the old ban- his mili- officers of ¢ stinguished iticnal and reviewing stand | the driv- coy er ing the howaver, Sh was stated, Thes2 are nearly all older did net take part in the who suffered from the ex- about the. streets. who hut ot walking in Train Crash. Island train No. 4, bound ; which left El Tex. Sanday was Escondiaa, two Though the was speed: of 45 miles an brake beam fell to the single person was hurt. Gats Seven Years. “hester 3. Runyan, paying teller of Windzor Trust Co... who confessed to stealing $100,000 of the company's f was sentenced to ¥ Sing Sing TIGHT MONEY BRINGS CRASH 11 Escape Faso, nizht, NN. M.. train cked at hours later, ronning ata hour when 2 Runyan ( eo serye seven FEAY3 in Kid Leather Concern Assigns Because it Can’t Borrow. James T. Lennox, and do- under t Patrick of business he—firm name & Co... manufacturers: of made their Pid kid 2N0X leather an for benafit of The a Boston, personal assiznnent weorzge R Janes was signee is G to whom assignment Nutter of made. The difficulties to personal failure which was caused in f tha money gtringouey © are due [£nnox, by the ket. firm James part marti of the Boy Dead, Father insane. he had whipped and ordered to return to Andy Siabo, a Hungarian boy, anrs old, shot “himself through heart with a shotgun at Morgan- W. Va. The flame from the ex- plosion set fire to his clothing and burned the body. became violently insane when he heard of the rash act and made four unsuc- cessful attempts to commit suicide. acause been father Quebec Bridge Co. Cleared. The coroner's jury examined two witnesses and concluded its work, and later rendered a verdict that Sephirn I.a France, one of the victims of the Quebec bridge, died from wounds and nervous shock received at the fall of the Quebec bridge. The jury caanot state the real cause or causes of the fail of the bridge, but believe it is its duty to declare that, according to the evidence adduced, all necessary precautions were taken to assure the building of the bridge without danger Germany. their | Te-: from | ammunition | s-inch ! report, | | in | dered. 1 1 ine | Iinsign John E. % | elected a driving | Gen. I jail. | penders, jumped by | The boy's father | | Geographical Society that the sound R. R. WINS CASE in Oid Charter Makes Fare Law Not Applic- abie t> This. Road. Wilson and Pleas Court at unconstitutional Tow 1 P. Clause Two. yb cn Audenried in Philadelphia the pass Judges Common declared railroad 3 last Legislature. The case upon the decision was made will at be taken to the State Supreme ile the which once Court It pointed out that under _ the act of its incorporation, April: 13 1546, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co received from the Commonwealth the ‘ight to demand from passengers eh fares which its & reasonable, “with immunity from in: terference by any public authority with the rates that it might esftab- lish.’ In summing up their reascns for declaring the act unconstitutional Judges Wilson and Audenried say: “Upun ‘the’ whole case we are opinion, and therefore, find, that, al though with respect to its: title and other matters: of form, no valid ob- jection: to act of April 5, 1997, ex- its Shoragian. so far as if Telates the Pennsylvania Railroad = Co. objectinnable on . constitutional is ita its of ists, to is | ground.” to take endeavor will matter in or- decision law ig, under its effect Oct. 1, and an he made to hasten the der to get a Supreme Ccurt before that date. The Dunsmore two-cent fare law was passed by the Legislature March 26, and signed by Gov. Stuart April 5. The opinion of the judges of Phila- delphia County Common ‘Pleas Court connection with the decision ren- contained abeut 35,000 words. Judges Wilson and Audenried de- clared that railroad corporations are particularly fit “subjects for regula tion by sovernmental power in respect charges made by them. The terms, tha [48] MIS SOURIAN 1S MADE CHIEF Burton Wins by More 300 Vstes—Ranks Are Tninning Fast. Than > rand Army li TCI their of marching parade © annual encambhment. past commander TroY. N.Y, dying after ef heart dise caused sure and over-exertion. - Ki S. N0.:234, New York also was overeome. far these the only casualti veterans mar storm, although ill in" hos members ( Twn { Republic « of the fc in forty-fi a f S. was of Post 25 resulting oh eh a dr yan are “ ana Fe 8 are = Mo. was of Nevada, congre in-chief c¢f the ypposed by }. Burton. a fcrmer member of commander Grand-~-Army. He was « John T. Wilder of Knoxville, Tenn.: Charles Burrows of = Ruther: ford, 'N. J., and Patrick H.. Coney of Topeka, Kan. more than 390 are: Other officers elected Lewis -C. Criftth, Troy, N.Y... son ior vice-commander; Wm. AM. Scott, Atlanta, junior ¥iee commander; Dr T. Lane Taneyhill, Baltimore, surgeon general; Bishop S Sanras] Fallows, Chi cago, chaplain in chief. Teledo, O., was selected place of meeting for the next en rampment. The date will be fixed by the national council of administra- tion. The report of O'Neall’ showed as the Joseph W that the membership of the Grand Army of the Republic June 30, 1906, was 222.748. In 1890 record vear, 409,489 were enroll ed. Gon. O'Neall’s report shows that 9.052 members died in the last 12 months. The total number of posts in. the army is. now 5.976. Gen O'Neall's report shows that 314 has been expended for relief during the year. Gen. O’'Neall strc Adj. Gan. the ymgly recommends that the G. A. R. establish perma nent headquarters instead of chang: ing its home office each year. John Runnette, a bank president of Pittshurg, was thrown from an auto- mobile and killed. Auto. the roya Stops Royal omobile from: which Queen Victoria of driving, was. suddenly confronted by a large bull, planted himself in front of Queen's car and compelled chauffeur to hurriedly stop the ma chine. Her majesty was greatly af- focted and was compelled to resume her journey in another car. 2 Bull An aut stables, re Spain was the the Hanged Himself in Jail. Wm. A. Culp. soon to be tried for the murder of his brother, Floyd C Culp. at Turtle Creek, Pa. July 23 defeated the law by hanging himsei! from his cell bars in the Pittsburg Culp made a nocse of his sus off a chair and strangled to death. Find No New Land. The commanders of the Anglo-Am- erican Polar expedition, which lost its ship. the Duchess of Bedford, in ar slowly | attempt to find a new continent north of Alaska, reported to the Americar irgs they made disclosed no such land. Lone Negro Legisiator Quits. W. H. Rogers of Mcintosh county the only negro member of the Georgia Legislature, has resigned his seat ir the general assembly. It is believet that the passage of the regro dis franchisement bill by the last Legis lature influenced him. M. Borodulin, superintendent of the Akatui political prison in Transbaika lia, was assassinated by an unknown nerson on the streets of Pakoff, Rus officers deén Burton's plurality®was: whiek 4 MOORS ARE AGAIN ROUTED Fight Des ld When Outnumbered. Rebels Yie WAREHIP AICS THE FRENCH Seventy-F The made a Baddert, massed latter was deszroy ment and the leaving many dead on French lost on: man men wounded. The attack ind was based larz vations of the Moors’ position 1. mititary--bailoon. The allied army, which was divided into. two columns, ieft - the camp at 6 o'clock in thé morning, leaving several compani f ipfantry to defend the base ~asablanca The march was “skillfully yut under cover of a fog way to Taddert, when the ind’ disclosed: several large he enemy. The allied sudder where anco-3ha army suceessrul the Moors The od eneny in force. camp of by bombard- put to: flight the field. ~ killed and arafully on tie was obser- ab until fog ban haif lifted alites then arge: bands of ihe yoint ~ of the bavonet ‘he Moors resis courage they to retreat; on Tadde the b enemy and although with their old- were finally com- and: the allies ad- ted ime elled ranced After lace: by the well as bs the ruiser Gloire, ailied ini: mn of es r of wiich fired int advanced ro mer Suis wh Yih 3 1asc Qa esparal follower di or 3 Ts tl making a short enzagement Je Moors fled in wild sued for several miles ar Algerian Iry lest i matsp the Moo on f 5 in front with tho ne heir rapidly roops, ind 's illied forces y failed. When n flames the) : arms. and woods md. soon Faddert was ind. flames. General his JTS Ta AT yy [Lic 20 coun covered Sept. Minnesecta. C ine spirits and chatted and #ith the membors of his party ‘he Minnosota. A great crow idieus and good wi > Accompanying Secre to ALY ress representatives, § son, Charles. his private fred. W. Carpenter and mee mdwards, : fnsular Affairs. On the Minnesot: Jud Thos. Burke and W. . Backus Seattle, special commissicners to th Orient for Ala: ukon Pacific xxposition; nas. J. O’Brien, Unit- ad States Ambassador to Japan, and Peter Augusiy 5 Jay. § secretary of the embs chife! the Thor Cashier Held Un. of Manley. the hank whil He handed that le 37.000 had Dish on the bandit Nah, +a villagn robber entered Cashier Dish w the cazhier a letter, asking read It. It was a demand for When Dish looked up the robber him covered with a revolver. gave him what currency was sounter, about $2,500, and nounted a horse at door raped. In the alone the + the and es- Coming Elections. Six states elect governors ‘all, namely, Rhode (slang, New Jers Mis- and of will this Massachusetts, Maryland: sissippi Kentucky.” In ail Missiszippi there wii bv polls them except a vigorous contest both the ing parties at the New will elect 150 members of her Lie ature and two judges of the Court of Appeals, so that there will be a con- siderable interast in that state over the. election. > PRINCE KILLED BY Austrian Nobleman and Mez2t Death. Prince Wivieischi of Vienna, was killed while AUTO. Chauffeur residing in Fiorence, as the result of his automobile, going at a high rate of speed, st house in an rik- ing the corner of a at- tempt to avoid crashing into another car. The prince's chauffeur was killed and threes other persons were in the car were injured. also who Red Man Bar “Saloonists. The Great Council of the United tieth annual session at Norfolk, Va, adopted an amendment to its laws prohibiting membership to all saloon- keepers and bartenders. This does not affect present members of order. The great fire which swept the east end of the Batson oil field was ex- tinguished after destroying worth of property. The cause of the fire is snknown. perately and move oir were. | thee planned from | earried lately | | Indian, Improved Order of Red Men in six- | sued by : | vanced from the position of a colony { Dominion of { with Canada, the | ; i Packing $100,000 | | w23 de FAVORS PARCELS POST Pos Gener al stmacter Als Zxtend Rural Delivery. al “Plans * Gone: Meyvar, who was tha would ents of - banks resid He indigated rural anid, wi 13, to rai in coun ily » POOR CONDITIONS OF and aisn “ond the wilich, he anything of dwellers very system, doing more than ie ti tion iC ve .the else CROPS Corn, Spring Wheat Bejow What They Last Yaar. was Tis last crop when against and .a 10-v 2. 1366; ear Onion 1 valine ewion anit nroventi halow Island ‘rr mm Central dapid- Cle two-cent world's’ r hroken a the Jrunot 5 Nevin’ Dg Alc Wis nck Attorney York will i this month. agat the ima [ea that teht and i tha an purpose ing ion depriv to whos2 heen tarald rid of S000 Many opinions obtained by declare in favor Philippines on Y the as possibile. Yittshurz ratos the two- Yataht, Sant. befor» tha last loz js. unconstitul for tha stato: Anerican Hun ry Co.. July 21 quarter, show ed. not earnings of $2.5 far any single quarter tors declared the dividends of 1 mon. and 134 red, payable Red Men Bar indians. The great council of the United Or- der of Red Meu in goin annual ses- sion, selected Bridgepe Conn., ‘as the next place of nr In view of applications for membership from descendants of American the qualifications of member: ship were made that of a “white citl- zen of the United States.” record, Direc: regular quarterly per cent on the com- per cent on the prefer Oct. 1. close the New Zealand a Dominion Now. A royal ploclamation has been which New Zealand is- is ad- and will hereafter: he known as “the of New Zealand,” sharing this covetad title $200,000 Blaze in Philadeiphia. The large plant of the Cudahy Company aot Ninth street and Gird avenue, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. The less is about $200,000. Beef weighing 25,000 pounds stroyed.
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