pt in the “commcdities clause” cases
anv were filed in the United States su-
preme court. The government brief is
» signed by Attorney General Bona-
want Lies L037
IN RHILADAD WRECK
Passenger and Freight Collide at
Siding in Colorado.
TRYING TO STEAL SIDING
The Crews of Both the Trains Are
Blamed for the Accident.
Glenwood Springs, Col.—Twenty-
six persons were killed and 50 more
were injured in a collision at Dotsero
siding, about 20 miles east of this
gity, on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, between passenger train No.
$, westbound, and freight train No.
66, eastbound, at 10:30 p. m.
The passenger train was flying
down the grade making for a siding
five miles west of Dotsero, where it
expected to meet the freight, and the
freight was also trying to make the
giding. The result was a head-on
solfision in which the engines were
smashed, the baggage car of the pas-
senger train left standing on end, one
@f the coaches telescoped by the chair
ear immediately behind it.
All the sleeping cars remained on
the track and none of the passengers
im them were injured.
The passenger train crashed into
the leading end of the freight train
going across a switch at Dotsero,
which is a blind siding. The chair
ear was telescoped and the first pas-
senger coach was wrecked.
Railroad officials say the responsi-
bility for the wreck rests with the
engine crew of the passenger train
who were trying to “steal” a siding.
Bn other quarters the freight crew
is blamed, as it was supposed to
have received orders here to wait for
the passenger at Detsero.
Immeditely after the crash the
wreckage took fire and the surviving
passengers were marshaled before
gooler heads to fight the flames.
Snow which lined the track was
brought into service and in this way
the fire was quickly extinguished.
$161,018,000 FOR PENSIONS
House Committee Again Recommends
Only One Agency.
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2
Washington. — An appropriation of
$161,018,000 for pensions was agreed
on by the committee on appropriations
in the draft of the annual pension ap-
propriation bill. This amount is over
$2,000,000 less than last year, which
was $163,053,000. In the report to the
Rouse it will be shown that the repub-
Mc has expended since its beginning
$3,751,108,809 in pensions.
The committee inserted in the bill
a provision that the 18 pension agen-
eies throughout the country be reduc-
ed to one, to be located in Washing-
ton. Congress has twice failed to
agree to such a proposal.
SAFE CRACKERS CAUGHT
Charged With the Blowing of a Lum-
ber Company’s Safe.
Huntington, W. Va. — After having
Broken jail eight times at Devon, on
the Norfolk and Western railroad,
Sam Clark and Harry Lewis, notori-
ous safe crackers and strong arm
men, were lodged in jail here. Clark
declaring he would escape or kill him.
self was put in a straight jacket,
Handcuffed and legs shackled. He is
wanted for blowing the safe of the
Ritter Lumber Company and on other
sharges.
Bank Cashier Gets Five Years.
ZOVERTIORX DAWSON’'S MESSAGE
Review of Conditions and Recommen-
dations for New Legislation.
Charleston, W. Va. — The financial
question is the first matter to receive
attention in the message of Governor
Dawson to the legislature of West
Virginia. In order to make the reve-’
nues equal to expenditures an increase
of taxes is recommended, on the lines
advocated by the state tax commis-
sioner.
A matter of vital importance is that
of the saving of our natural resources
—our coal, natural gas, forests and
soil. To this end the measures recom-
mended by the commission appointed
by the governor are submitted with
approval.
In this connection it is urged upon
you the necessity of preventing the
polluting of our rivers, which is such
a frightful source of typhoid fever and
other deadly diseases.
In regard to mining laws, among
other recommendations, the governor
says:
“A superintendent of a large colliery
of this state has urged me to recom-
mend to the legislature the enactment
of a law which will prohibit any cne
taking intoxicating liquors to or in a
mine, or offer the same to any one
employed about mines while on duty;
and that will prohibit any superin-
tendent or any other person in author
ity or engaged in any duty about a
mine, and any miner, from drinking
such liquors or being under their in-
fluence, while on duty, or at work in
or about a mine. He says he has had
twenty years’ experience in mine su-
perintendence, believes that whisky is
the cause of the majority of mine ac-
cidents; that he has tried to prevent
the practice, but cannot do so in the
absence of law prohibiting it. The
statement of this gentleman strikes
me as well worthy of tonsideration.”
Governor Dawson thinks his party
pledge concerning submission of a
prohibition amendment ought to be
kept, and he even goes so far as to
point out a plan whereby he thinns
the question might be put up to the
people even if the proposition fails to
secure the necessary twe-thirds ma-
jority in the legislature.
“The condition of some of our jails
and lockups are a.disgrace to a ctvil-
ized state. The cruelty and inhuman-
ity thereby inflicted upon the inmates
of these places is appalling. They are
breeding places of disease and immor"
alities, and are often indescribably
filthy. Some of our county poor
houses are also in a deplorable condi-
tion. I suggest that; provision be
made that these places be inspected
under the supervision of the state
board of health or the humane socie-
tv; and that proper punishment be
prescribed for .the keepers of these
places who fail to observe decency and
the instincts of humanity.
BANKER GETS FIFTEEN YEARS
Jury Found Him Guilty on All But
One of 30 Charges.
Pittsburg.—J. B. F. Rinehart was
found gilty of looting the Farmers and
Drovers National Bank of Waynes-
burg.
He was sentenced to 15 years in the
Western Penitentiary within 20 min-
utes after the jury announced its ver-
dict. The commutation allowed for
good behavior will reduce the sentence
to about 10 years. 3
The jury after a long-drawn-out ar-
gument found Rinehart guilty of 29 of
the 30 counts in the two indictments.
When sentence was imposed he was
at once taken to the office of Mar-
shal Stephen Stone and was taken to
Riverside Penitentiary.
When the verdict was read Unitex
States Attorney John W. Dunkle asked
for immediate judgment. Attorney
Franklin P. Iams moved for a new
trial, but Judge James S. Young re-
fused it. He said that the government
Parkersburg, W.
Morgan, formerly cashier of the clos-
ed Pirst National Bank of Friendly,
pleaded guilty in federal court to the
eharge of misappropriating funds and
returning a false report to the comp-
troller of currency. Judge A. G. Day-
son sentenced him to five years in the
penitentiary. The exact amount of
Morgan’s defalcations probably will
never be made public. Morgan col-
Hapsed on hearing his sentence.
Commodity Clause Briefs Filed.
Washington, D. C.—The briefs of
both the government and the railroads
Va.— Elbert L. |
desired that the law should be carried
| out.
Accosting Mr. Iams, Assistant Unit-
ed States Attorney Robert M. Gibson
asked Mr. Iams if it was proposed to
ask for a supersedeas to get a new
trial.
“If you propose doing so we will
ask for an increase in the amount of
bail. If you do not propose to do so
we shall ask that judgment be con-
SECOND EXPLOSION
IN LICK COIL MINES
Works Had Been Idle Since the
Disaster in Deczmber.
FORTY-SEVEN BODIES FOUND
Horrible Scenes Witnessed by Res.
cuers in the Ill Fated Colliery
at Lick Branch.
Switchback, W. Va.—One hundred
and fifty miners are believed to have
perished in an explosion at the Lick
Branch mine of the Pocahontas Con-
solidated Collieries Company.
The list of missing men has not
been completed, and the number of
dead may reach 200. The heat of
the mine was so intense all day long
that no rescuing party has yet dared
to enter more than a few feet.
Bluefield, W. Va.—A total of 65
bodies have been taken from the ill-
fated mine at Lick Branch. Three
rescue crews of 40 men each, led by
State Mine Inspector Grady, Nichol
son and Warner are at work. The
men in these crews report the most
ghastly sights within the torn and
fire-swept corridors and workings of
the mine, where bodies are found
mangled and mutilated beyond identi-
fication.
It is difficult, they declare, to dis-
tinguish between white and black
persons they are so frightfully burn-
ed. Some bodies taken from the
mines resemble charred masses of
flesh more than human beings. From
some bodies the legs are gone, from
others the arms. One was complete-
ly headless.
Experienced miners are authority
for the statement that this is the first
case on record where two explosions
took place in the same mine in such
a short space of time, and are unable
to explain its cause. Some of them
point to the fact that the thermome-
ter fell 19 degrees within several
hours on the morning of the catas-
trophe and hold that such rapid
changes in the weather have consid-
erable influence on the conditions
that produce mine disasters.
The force of the explosion was
shown by the fact that a hunter, car-
rying a gun, was passing one of the
openings some distance away when
the explosion came and a piece of fly-
ing timber hurled from the mine
mouth killed him instantly. The es-
cape of “Cleve” Bowers, mine fore-
man, who crawled on his hands from
the mine while fire, smoke and dead-
ly gases belched forth over him is a
most remarkable feature of the ex-
plosion. Bowers was the only man
who escaped alive, and although he
lies with two ribs broken and other
injuries, it is asserted that he will
recover. 2
Lying near the pit mouth after the
accident was the body of John Bow-
ers, mine foreman. Less than six
feet away was another body, suppos-
ed to be that of Burt Abel of Hunt-
ington. All the clothing had been
blown from both bodies and the flesh
was so burned that identification was
made with the greatest difficulty.
Many Americans Employed.
The fact that the explosion in this
same mine last December 29, when
50 men were killed, had entirely
freed the mine of dust, and as the
mine had resumed operations oaly
the dust theory as a cause for the ex-
plosion is not expected to be consid-
ered. Mr. Jones says the mine was
practically free from gas, or at least
no trouble from that source had ever
been reported to him.
Of the 300 men employed at the
Lick Branch mine, 80 per cent were
Americans and -above the average
class of West Virginia miners. The
others were chiefly Bulgarians and
negroes. It is not likely any rescu-
ing party can penetrate the workings
before tomorrow.
firmed,” continued Mr. Gibson.
After Jams and Rinehart had held
a short consultation in the corridor
they returned to the courtroom and
Rinehart was immediately sentenced.
parte, Solicitor General Hoyt and I. A.
Wilmer and Thomas C. Spelling, spe-
eial counsel, and the opposition docu-
ment by John G. Johnston and Robert
W. Deforest.
Refuse to Post Nude Pictures.
Oklahoma City.—Directors of the
National Bill Posters’ association is-
sued an order forbidding members of
the association te-post nude pictures
such as are used to advertise union
PROVIDE INCREASES
| Court Officials Included With Judges
JUDGE IN DISGRACE
|
| Bonaparte Asks Him to Resign for
Borrowing From a Ward.
Honolulu. — United States Attorney
General Charles J. Bonaparte has ask-
ed Circuit Judge A. N. Kepoikaj of
Maui for his resignation, after inves-
In Salary Readjustment.
Washington. — The legislative and
judicial appropriation bill was report-
ed to the senate by Senator Cullom,
The bill includes provisions for the in-
dent to $100,000 annually, inclusive of
traveling expenses; of the vice presi-
dent to $20,000 and the speaker of the
house to $20,000.
Provision is made also for increases
in the salaries of federal judges as
suits and corsets.
Two More States Probable.
Arizona and New Mexico are in a
fair way to become full fledged states
during ‘the present session of con-
gress. It was learned that the house
committee on territory is to report the
Bills to the house as early as possible.
Mrs. Nation Raids in England.
Newecdstle-upon-Tyne, Eng. — Carrie |
Nation, the American anti-salecon cru-
sader, was arrested here while raid-
ing a saloon.
LOST MINISTER FOUND
Stumbies Into Abandoned Hut During |
Mountain Storm.
El Paso, Tex.—A searching party
which had been looking for two days
for Rev. W. T. Tracy, pastor of an
Episcopal church of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who was missed during the recent
storm in the Guadeloupe mountains of
New Mexico, found him in an aban-
@oned hut in the foothills.
Rev. Mr. Tracy had stumbled into
the cabin during the storm when he |
was almost exhausted.
| follows: Chief justice of the supreme
| court, $18,000; associate justice, $17,-
500; circuit judges, $10,000; district
| Judges, $9,000; justice of the court of
appeals of the District of Columbia,
| $10,000; chief justice and associate
| judge of the supreme court of the
| District of Columbia; $9,000; chief jus-
| tice of the court of claims, $7,500; as-
| sociate justices of the court of claims,
$7,000.
The provision of the bill increas-
| ing the salary of federal judges also
| includes a readjustment of the salar-
| ies of other court officials.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
|
| Senator Knox introduced a bill to
| increase the state department by an
{under secretary and a fourth assist-
{ ant.
The Chinese empire has politely in-
| timated to the world powers that her
{reason for dismissing Yuan Shi Kai
| is none of their business.
Three publishers of Hearst's New
| York American were convicted of li-
{ belling im D Rockefeller, Jr., and
e hours in Tembs pending
nt
from the committee on appropriations. |
creasing of the salaries of the Presi- |
tigating the charges filed against the
jurist by Governor Frear of Hawaii.
| These were that Kepoikai had borrow-
| ed $1,000 from the funds belonging to
|a ward of the court, giving in ex-
| change his own note, unsecured,
| which at the time that the charges
were made was overdue and unpaid.
The ward was a Japanese minor,
whose father had died leaving an es-
tate of $2,600. Judge Kepoikai ap-
pointed a guardian, who converted the
entire estate into cash, and, it is ai-
leged, the judge then borrowed $1,000.
Since the charges were preferred he
has repaid that amount with interest
at the legal rate.
Manila Band Coming to Inaugural.
The Philippine band at Manila will
be brought to Washington to take a
prominent part in the parade, ball and
| public concerts of the inauguration in
| March. The band numbers 86 native
| members. Its trip to the United States
will be at the expense of the band,
and it will be paid for its services
here.
Ask National Celebration.
Washington.—The Grand Army of
the Republic desires a National cele-
bration of the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of Lincoln on Feb-
ruary 12 and has asked President
Roosevelt to issue a proclamation to
the country, inviting and urging such
a celebration. The matter was laid
- PRESIDENT CRITICISED
Senator Bacon Discusses Question of
Congressional Powers to De-
mand Reports.
Washington.—The authority of con-
gress to direct heads of executive de-
partments to send to the senate or
house of representatives information
in their
of an extended speech in the senate
by Senator Augustus O. Baeon of
Georgia. Mr. Bacon took the broad
view that congress had absolute pow-
er to demand from heads of depart-
ments any information within their
possession and even to require them
to give reasons for their action or
non-action on any matter coming
before them. {
Senator Bacon introduced a resolu-
tion declaring that “any and every
public document, paper or record, or
copy thereof, on the files of any de-
partment of the government relating
to any subject whatever which con-
gress has any grant of power, juris-
diction or control under the Constt
tution, and any information relative
thereto within the possession of the
officers of the department, is subject
to the call or inspection of the senate
for its use in the exercise of its
constitutional powers and jurisdic-
tion.” :
The resolution is the result of Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s refusal to permit
Attorney General Bonaparte to ex-
plan to the senate of the United
States Steel Corporation-Tennessee
Coal and Iron merger, which the
President permitted. The senate
postponed action.
Complaining that the language of
the President in his Steel Corporation
message had not been “distinguished
by its extreme courtesy.” Mr. Bacon
proceeded: “This is the first time
that the denial of the right of the
senate has ever been made in such
unlimited and emphatic language.”
GLASS MEN AGREE
Strong Combination Effected,
quarters of Which Will Be
In Pittsburg.
Columbus.—After two days of con-
ference and argument over terms of
consolidation, - the Independent Win-
dow Glass Manufacturers in their
meeting here came to an agreement
and it is announced that within a few
days the Imperial Window Glass Com-
pany, which will include in its person-
nel practically every manufacturer of
band blown glass, will be launched.
The capitalization officers and other
details, were not definitely decided
upon.
Out of the 2,000 and more pots of
the independent window glass factor-
ies, over 1,700 signed the agreement,
and when the remaining factories,
which are located in West Virginia
and Pennsylvania, are heard from, the
final touches will be put on the new
corporation.
W. R. Jones & Company, who own
three large plants in West Virginia,
decided to join the merger, and this
accession, it is said, made the merger
possible. v
The factories which will be con-
trolled are located in Ohio, West Vir-
ginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New
York, Kansas and California.
Head-
COAL BUSINESS DROPS
Production of Bituminous Fell Off
During Financial Depression.
Washington.—Bituminous coal pro-
duction in the United States in 1908
reached between 320,000,000 and 330,-
000,000 tons, according to the geologi-
cal survey, against more than 400,000,
000 tons in 1907.
This decrease is attributed to the
financial depression in the latter year,
which in the bituminous regions was
most keenly felt in the coking branch
of the industry. The Connellsville
and lower Connellsville districts of
Pennsylvania, the principal coke pro-
ducing centers, reported about 50 per
cent decrease in output.
The survey says the coal industry
will return to normal conditions grad-
ually. Railroad shipments of anthra-
cite last year exceeded (4,000,000 long
tons against 67,000,000 long tons the
previous year.
VOTED FOR TAFT
Go Through Usual Formality.
Charleston.—The Republican presi-
dential electors for West Virginia,
elected in November, met January 11
in the governor’s reception room and
cast the seven votes of West Virginia
for William -Howard Taft for presi-
dent and James S. Sherman for vice
president.
The electors present were: J. H.
McDermot, of Monongalia; Enoch M.
McPeak, of Fayette; Senator John
Santee, William H. Crawford, of
Berkley; Floyd Jarrett, of Greenbrier;
Milton R. Lowther, of "Wood county,
and Armstead A. Lilley, of Raleigh.
Enoch M. McPeak acted as chairman,
and Homer Grey, of the governor's
office, as secretary. - Floyd Jarrett
was chosen as the messenger to cast
West Virginia’s seven votes.
New Date for Vote Counting.
February 10, 1909, at 1 o’clock was
today designated as the time for
counting the electoral vote in the
house of representatives by the terms
of the concurrent resolution reported
by Mr. Burrows from the committee
on privileges and elections and passed
by the senate.
To Issue Lincoln Stamp.
In commemoration of the one hun-
dredth anniversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln the House of Rep-
resentatives authorized the Postmast-
er General to issue a special Lincoln
postage stamp of the denomination of
2 cents in accordance with Represen-
tative Dawson’s resolution.
before the house today by General H.
M. Nevius,
commander-in-chief, and |
Chicago.—The exact value of the
estate of the late Marshall Field was
| General F. F. Burdette, past c oo aR
mander-in-chief. The President placed at 383,459,032, when the ap-
he would take the matter up with his | Praisers’ report was filed in the coun-
cabinet at a meeting. 2 | ty court.
possession was the subject |
West Virginia's Presidential Electors’
JOMIRAL RUESTIENSHY
CALLED BY DEATH
Russian Admiral Whos: Fleet
Was Sunk by th= Japanese
Passes Away.
WAS WOUNDED IN BATTLE
His Flagship Blown Up and He Was
Taken Prisoner by Japanese.
St. Petersburg.—The death is an-
nounced of Vice Admiral Zinovi Pe-
trovich Rojestvensky, who was in
command of the Russian fleet in May,
1903, when it was practically anni-
hilated by the Japanese in the battle
of the Sea of Japan.
Rojestvensky was a typical Rus-
sian sailor, of pure Muscovite blood.
The death of Vice Admiral Rojest-
vensky, which occurred in St. Peters-
burg, was due to neuralgia of the
heart.
In 1904, after the disasters to the
Russian warships in their conflicts
with the Japanese, Rojestvensky was
given personal command of the Rus-
sian Baltic fleet with orders to take
it to Vladivostock. Owing to per-
sistent rumors that the Japanese
would attack it en route a careful
cutlook was kept by the Russians,
and when the fleet was off the Dogger
Banks in the North Sea, it came up-
on the North Sea British fishing fleet.
The lights of the trawlers caused
alarm on some of the Russian vessels,
and they fired upon the fishermen.
The steam trawler Crane was sunk
and two other fishing boats were in-
jured, while two men of the trawlers
were killed and a number wounded.
This resulted in strained relations be-
tween Great Britain and Russia, and
although an international commission
at Paris technically excused Rojest-
vensky, though condemning the firing
upon the trawlers, the Russian Gov-
ernment was assessed $320,000 dam-
ages.
Between Korea and Japan, in the
straits of Tsu-Shima on May 27, 1905,
the Russian fleet, under Rojestven-
sky, ran into Vice Admiral Togo's
naval ambuscade, and Togo captured
or disabled eight battleships, nine
cruisers, three coast defense ships,
nine destroyers, one auxiliary criuser,
six special service steamers and two
hospital ships. The Russians lost
4,000 men killed and 7,300 taken pris-
oners. The Japanese lost three tor-
pedo boats and 116 killed and 538
wounded. The battleship Kniaz
Souvaroff, Rojestvensky’s flagship,
was blown up in the battle, and the
Vice Admiral sustained severe
wounds. He was tagen prisoner
and held by the Japanese until the
war ended.
Returning to Russia after his re-
lease, Rojestvensky applied for re-
tirement, saying his health was shat-
tered. He was indicted for surrend-
ering to an enemy and his officers for
cowardice and demoralization. Ro-
jestvensky pleaded guilty in order to
save the officers, but he was declared
not guilty. The officers were con-
demned to death, but their sentences
afterward were commuted.
BRAIN SHOWS INSANITY
Four Physicians Examine It and Agree
Carmichael Suffered Acute Mania.
Detroit.—The brain of Rev. John H.
Carmichael, hwo killed Gideon Brown-
ing in the Rattle Run church and
committed suicide at Carthage, Ill.
was examined by four physicians
here. They found unmistakable evi-
dence of insanity. The doctors who
held the postmortem examination were
County Physician William J. Staple-
ton, E. B. Smith, C. B. Ray and Ar-
thur W. Kipp.
“We find that Rev. Mr. Carmichael
had been a sufferer from a cute ma-
nia,” said the physicians. “The blood
vessels of the brain were all congest-
ed. It is evident Rev. Mr. Carmichael
had suffered several attacks of acute
inflammation of the brain.”
Marks found on the body which
gave rise to the report that the minis-
er had been addicted to the use of
a hypodermic syringe for administer-
ing drugs, had all been made before
the minister's death.
Moros Making Trouble.
San Francisco.—According to news
brought by the transport Sherman,
now in this port, 40,000 natives of the
island of Baslin, district of Zamboan-
ga, are in a turbulent state. The trou-
ble has been fomented by the “mad
priest,” a Moro, recently released
from Bilibad prison. Several bloody
clashes between the Moros and a de-
tachment of Filipino scouts to disarm
them have been reported. Despite the
‘obstacles put in their way, it is said,
that the scouts have practically suc-
ceeded in disarming the rebellious
Moros.
Mr. Kern Defeated for Senate.
Indianapolis.—John W. Kern, rec-
ent candidate for Vice President, suf-
fered another defeat. This time it
was at the hands of Indiana Demo-
cratic legislators, who in their caucus,
after many ballots, nominated B. F.
Shiveley for United States Senator
to succeed Senator Hemenway after
March 4.
$7,000,000 Taxes Ordered Assessed.
Chicago.—Judge Windes in the cir-
cuit court ordered a writ of mandam-
us that the board of review assess
taxes and penalties of $7,000,000
against majority stockholders of the
International Harvester Company.
The suit grew out of the alleged fail-
ure of the taxing body to fully assess
the stock during the last five years.
Turkey accepted the Austro-Hun-
garian offer of $10,800,000 indemnity
for the annexation of Bosnia and
PREACHER COMMITS SUICIDE
The Rev. Mr. Carmichael, Confessged
Murderer, Ends His Life at
Carthage, lil.
Chicago.—Remorse for his horrible
deed in the lonely little church at
Rattle Run, Mich., overtook the Rev.
John H. Carmichael at Carthage, Ill,
where he committed suicide by cut-
ting his throat. The fugitive circuit
rider and confessed murderer of Gid-
eon Browning, the Adair carpenter,
could make no statement after he had
cut his throat, but in his pockets the
sheriff found a letter: addressed to the
sheriff of St. Clair county, Michigan,
which declared the victim’s identity
and asked the Mickigan sheriff to
come and get the body.
There is little doubt that the Meth-
odist circuit rider was insane and the
belief is that he was seeking his old
home at Grant, Neb. The suicide
was committed at the house of Mrs.
Miranda Hughes, where he took lodg-
ing after his arrival Sunday.
The belief that the- Michigan
preacher was insane is also confirm-
ed by the letter: In it he stated
that Browning had a hypnotic influ-
ence over him. This supposition is
ridiculous, in view of Carmichael’s
well-known mental superiority over
the carpenter unless the minister was
not in his right mind.
The letter further describes in
gruesome details, such as one might
expect from the writer of the manu-
script novel found after Carmichael’s
flight, how he cut up Browning's body
with a hatchet and put it in the stove
piece by piece.
Detroit, Mich.—The dismembered
body of a man was found partialiy
consumed by fire, in the two heating
stoves of a church near Columbus,
in the southwestern part of St. Clair
county.
At first it was thought that the
victim was the Rev. J. H. Carmichael
who had disappeared from the neigh-
borhood, but further investigation
showed that it was a man named
Gideon Browning and the officers are
searching for Carmichael.
Myron Brown, who lives near the
scene of the tragedy, discovered the
crime. While waiting at the cross-
roads, the cold wind drove him to
seek shelter in the church. He was
terrified to see the church floor,-the
pews and even the communion table
daubed with blood and fragments of
bloody clothing scattered all around.
TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS
Increase in Navy as Favored by Re-
port Will Amount to $29,000,000.
‘Washington..—An increase of the
navy to the extent of $29,000,000 was
agreed upon by the house committee
on naval affairs.
The following naval program for
appropriations at this session was
adopted by the committee: Two bat-
tleships of 26,000 tons displacement,
$19,000,000; five torpedo boat destroy-
ers, $4,000,000; three colliers, $3,600,
000; four submarines, $2,000,000; one
sub-surface boat, $400,000.
Two battleships are recommended
by the committee instead of four, as
estimated for by the navy depart-
ment. The estimate for destroyers
was cut in half, the navy department
asking for ten.
OPPOSES PROHIBITION
Tennesse Governor Sends Vigorous
Message to Legislature.
Nashville, Tenn.—In a special mes-
sage to the lesgislature Governor Pat-
terson declared State-wide prohibi-
tion fundamentally and profoundly
wrong as a governmental policy. He
obvious rule, individual action and
personal freedom. To destroy the
value of existing plants without re-
muneration, the governor said, is con-
fiscation without compensation.
The Governor said the choice lay
between regulation and control or
secret or open violation. He made
a strong plea for local option.
SENATORS CHGSEN.
Columbus, O.—In accordance with
the federal laws, the house and sen-
ate held separate sessions and voted
for United States senator. Congrese-
man Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland,
was named to succeed Mr. Foraker.
Hartford, Conn.—United States Sen-
ator Frank B. Brandegee of New
London, will succeed himself as the
junior senator from Connecticut for
the full term of six years.
Boise, Idaho.— United States Sena-.
tor Weldon B. Heyburn was re-elect-
ed by both branches of the legislature
in separate sessions.
Sacramento, Cal.—George G. Perk-
ins was re-elected United States sena-
tor on the first ballot by a vote of 56
to 22 in the assembly and 32 to 8 In
the senate.
Topeka, Kas. — The legislature,
overwhelmingly Republican, two
weeks from today will elect Joseph
L. Bristow as United States senator
te succeed Chester I. Long, Republi-
can, whose term will expire March 3
next,
$20,000,000 for the Mississippi.
Representative: Tawney of Minneso-
ta introuced a bill for the authoriza-
tion of the appropriation of $20,000,
000 for the permanent improving of
the Mississippt river between the
mouth of the Missouri and the city
of St. Paul, Minn. The bill provides
that $2,000,000 shall be appropriated
annually for this purpose. ;
Real D. A. R. Dies at 108.
ers, 108 years old, a real daughter of
the revolution, and said to be the
oldest person in New England, died
at her home in this town. Mrs.
Sellers was born in this town and
lived here all her life.
J. Henry Jahn, a former Pittsburg-
er, who killed Jesse Benson Price, also
of Pittsburg, at Darrington, Wash.,
Herzegovina.
March 3, 1908, was senteneed to life
| imprisonment at Everett, Wash.
said it violates the plainest and most :
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