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Nature’s law of compensation works
all right. The wholesale graduating of
young doctors in the spring is fol
lowed by that of competent trained
nurses in the fall.
By the grace of American ship-
building skill Russia may now claim
to possess in the Retvizan, her new
record breaking battleship, the latest
and fleetest of the armored queens
of the seas. #7
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Swimming and life-saving have been
incorporated by the government in the
course of instruction to be taught in
the public schools of New Zealand,
~ and 2000 handbooks have been distri-
buted among the schoolmasters for
the purpose.
It seems that the hunting of orchids
in the tropics is to be classed as a
dangerous profession. Rare species
are 50 much in demand that parts of
South America and Africa are every
year searched for the beautiful flow-
ers, but nearly all the orchid hunters
soon succumb to the tropical fevers.
Glass is now being manufactured
by electricity. The materials used are
fused on a hearth fed by an Archime-
dean screw, and the arc is produced by
a direct or alternating current of 50
volts. The low voltage required makes
the fusion exceedingly economical,
particularly where the electricity is
produced through the agency of water
ower.
Actording to The Electrical World
and Engineer San Francisco leacs all
cities of the United States in the
number of telephones to population.
With a population of only 342,782 it
hag 21,324—a total only surpassed by
New York City, Chicago and Boston.
It has a telephone for every 16 inhabi-
tants, whereas Philadelphia has only,
one for every 96.
Even in Canada, that land of grand
dimension and scattered population,
the tendency of movement is cityward.
“ "Rhe. towns grow in the number of in-
habitants; the rural districts fall off.
This drift is accelerated by the use
of machinery on the farms. The land
is planted and the
LIVES LOST IN
A MINE DISASTER
Fire Imperils Two Hundred Men in Tun-
nel of Smuggler-Union Co.
DEADLY GAS AND SMOKE CAUSE.
Suffocating Fumes Baffle Work of Rescuers—
Bodies of 22 Are Found—Shafts Act Like
Chimneys and Increase the Blaze to Terri:
ble Proportions—Rock Blasted Into Tunnel
to Stop the Flames.
Telluride, Col, (Special).—What is
likely to prove the most disastrous-geci-
dent that has ever occurred in a mine
in Colorado resulted from “a fire which
burned the buildings.at the mouth of
the Bullion Tunnél, through which the
Smuggler-Union Mine is worked, and
filled the ‘mine with deadly gas and
smoke,
It is impossible to give even an esti-
mate of the loss of life, but it is be-
lieved that it will reach nearly 100.
Hugh J. O'Neill, the engineer, was
taken out alive, but is not expected to
recover.
Every physician in Teiluride was
summoned to the mine and was kept
busy attending those of the rescuers who
were overcome with gas.
Seventeen of the twenty-two bodies
found were discovered on the seventh
level. Between 75 and 90 men were
working on that level, and it has not
yet been fully cxplored since the fire
began. On account of the gas and
smoke most of the levels could not be
entered because of the danger of suffo-
cation.
The fire started early in the morning
from a defective flue in the bunk house
at the mouth of the tunnel. It quickly
comunicated to the other buildings. The
dense ‘smoke from the burning con-
verter house, which was saturated with
oil, began pouring into the tunnel, which,
with the shafts of the mine, acted as
chimneys.
The day men had just gone on duty,
and before they could be warned of
their danger the levels were filled with
gas. ..
As soon as the men became aware of
their danger efforts were made to reach
the surface through different exits,
and about half of those in the mine es-
caped.
The Smuggler-Union mine is one of
the oldest in the district and has several
abandoned openings. Most of those who
escaped did so through the other Union
workings and the old Sheridan tunnel.
A rescuing party cut a connection
through from the Commission workings |
adjoining and took out of it some of the |
men.
HORRIBLE COUGH CURE
Natives of New Guinea Massacre Those
They Blame.
London, (By Cable). — Lieut.-Gov.
George R. Le Hunte, in his annual report
on British New Guinea, tells a strange
story of native superstition which is
causing the sacrifice of innumerable
lives. Whooping cough was introduced
there by two white children and spread
with frightful rapidity. It first swept the
coasts and is now ravaging the interior.
As the natives hold that death from any
cause is always compaszed by an un-
known enemy, only discoverable through
witchcraft, whenever a village is at-
tacked with whooping cough a sorcerer
is consulted. The latter invariably des-
ignates another village or tribe as cul-
pable and a midnight massacre of iu-
nocent persons follows.
BeRURGLAR ON SCENE.
ned by Explosion
The
IN. °C,
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
The verdict of the cornoner’s jury in
the case of John W. Scott, the young
club and society man of Richmond, who
was found horribly beaten in the door-
gaining consciousness, was ;
Scott's injuries were infligfed by a
weapon in the hands of s
known.
Professor Ritchey.
Observatory, Chica) has secured pho-
tographs of the new star in the north-
ern sky ifom which he draws additional
proof of the nebular theory of the crea-
[tion of the world.
Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, has
invited governors of other States in the
Northwest to a conference to discuss
resistance to the consolidation of the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Railroads.
Admiral Schley has declined the offer
of the Knoxville Sentinel to collect a
fund with which to defray the expense
to which the Admiral was subjected by
the court of inquiry.
W. D. Brockman, of Chicago, believ-
ing that he had killed his wife instead
of a burglar, shot and killed himself in
his remorse.
The New York Grand Jury returned
an indictment against Police Captain
Gannon, charging him with neglect of
duty.
Bank robbers wrecked the safe of a
bank at Ravenswood, W. Va. but did
not succeed in carrying off any cash.
The 400 marching miners from Mont-
gomery, Washington, Petersburg and
Princeton, who visited Vincennes, Ind,
to unionize the miners in the Prospect
Hill Mines. entered a house where sev-
eral non-union miners are boarding and
beat five of them almost insensible. The
women in the house fainted. The police
and sheriff were summoned.
Secretary of State Hay made an im-
portant speech upon thi foreign pol
and commercial development and de-
mands of the United States at the an-
nual banquet of the New York Chamber
of Commerce. Senator McLaurin, of
South Carolina, spoke on “The Monroe
Doctrine of the Twentieth Century.”
The court-martial ordered by the Sec-
retary of the Navy to investigate the
charges of intoxication and scandalous
conduct made against Col. R. L. Meade,
of the Marine Corps, was begun at the
navy yard, Brooklyn.
One person was killed and 12 injured
in a rear-end collision between two Met-
ropolitan Elevated trains in Chicago.
The collision was due to a dense fog.
Another collision occurred on the Lake
Street “L.”
Fire destroyed property at Charlotte, |
valued at $100,000. Among the |
establishments burned were the Pied-
mont Cotton Company; Aglesby Broth-
ers, dry goods, and Bryan & Co. gro-
cers.
The British steamer Monmouth, Cap-
tain Troop, which arrived at Norfolk
from Cape Town, South Africa, reports
the existence of over 800 cases of bu-
bonic plague in the vicinity of Cape
Town.
Eight hundred brakemen and switch-
man on the New York Division of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railway have struck. The tug and float
service of New York City is involved
and the strike may be extended.
Mrs. Marie Becker was made hysteri-
cal by the sight of cattle being slaught-
ered in the Chicago stockyards, and the
physicians have not yet been able to re-
store her. to her normal condition.
Foreign.
A pro-Boer meeting in London was
broken up by Tories, and Sir Patterson
Nickalls, who presided, was subjected
to a demonstration of disapproval on the
Stock Exchange.
British officials now want to try Dr.
Krause, former governor of Johannes-
burg, in London on charges of high trea-
son and incitement to murder.
The scheme of
syndicates
of the Yerkes
way of a West End residence ore SE
last week, and who died witho
EVEN PERSONS
KILLED IN WRECK
Thess Mining: and Fourteen Traine
men Badly Hurt. .
BLOWN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION,
A Switch Station om the Santa Fe Route
Twenty Miles East of Needless, Cal, the
Scene of the Accident—Two Lim ted Passen-
ger Trains, Bound in Opposite Directions,
Crashed Ianto Each Other.
Los Angeles, Cal, (Special).—A fatal
wreck occurred on the Santa Fe Rail-
road one mile west of Franconia, Ariz,
a switch station 20 miles east of Nee-
dles, Cal.
Seven trainmen were killed, three pas-
sengers and 14 trainmen injured. Lim-
ited trains, one east, the other west
bound, crashed together while running
at full speed. The eastbound train was
drawn by two engines, while the west-
bound train had but one locomotive.
The three engines were crushed and
blown to pieces by an explosion which
followed the collision. Both trains were
made up of vestibule cars of the heaviest
kind, and while they stood the terrific
shock well and protected the passengers
to a great extent, several of the cars
took fire and burned up. The dining
cars, one on each train; one Pullman
and two composite cars were destroyed.
The collision is said to have been due
to a disregard of orders by the crew of
the westbound train. From all accounts,
however, it is gathered that the east-
bound train had orders to take the siding
at Franconia, and await the passing of
the westbound flyer, which was running
two hours late and trying to make up
time. The eastbound train failed to reach
the siding, and, as the westbound train
did not wait for it, the two trains came
together without warning and with ar
awful crash.
The boiler of the westbound engine is
said to have exploded immediately after
the crash, scalding to death those of the
engine crews who had not been killed
outright. The bodies of Case and Armi-
tage, firemen of the eastbound train, and
Sam Brown, waiter of the opposite train,
are missing, and it is believed that they
were cremated in the flames that follow-
ed the collision.
The sleeping cars, with one or twa
exceptions, suffered slightly, and as a
result the passengers were afforded com-
parative immunity from injury.
HAY DISCUSSES POLICIES.
Notable Gathering of Guests of the New Yorh
Chamber of Commerce.
New York, (Special).—The chiel
event at the annual banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce at Del-
monico’s Tuesday night was a speech
by Secretary of State Hay, in which he
made important declarations regarding
the foreign policy of the United States.
Mr. Hay said in part:
“I am asked to say something about
our diplomacy. You want from me
nothing but the truth, and yet if I con-
fine myself to the truth I cannot help
fearing I shall do my profession a wrong
in the minds of those who have been in
the habit of considering diplomacy an
occult science, as mysterious as alchemy
and as dangerous to the morals as mu-
nicipal politics.
“It must be admitted that this concep-
tion of the diplomatic function is not
without a certain historical foundation.
There was a time when diplomacy was a
science of intrigue and falsehood, of
traps and mines and counter-mines. It
may be another instance of that creduli-
ty with which I have often been charged
by European critics when I say that I
believe the world has moved onward in
diplomacy, as in many other matters.
“I can say without hesitation that we
n Anglo-American |
have generally told squarely what we
announced early gotiation
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TAMERICAN CONSUL |
WAS BADLY BEATEN
The Outrageous Treatment of Paul
Schilling in Saxony.
MISTOOK HIM FOR A BAD PREACHER.
Police Ignore His Explanations, add Official
Documents Proving His Identity and Take
Him Openly Through the Streets to the
Jail, Followed by Crowds of People—aA
Demand for Reparation. ;
Berlin, (By Cable) .—Dragged from
bed as the result of a mistaken idemtifi-
cation, searched, beaten and locked in a
cell for five hours, Paul E. Schilling,
American vice consul at Zittaw, Saxony,
having secured his release with diffi-
culty, came to Berlin to seek the co-op-
eration of United States Ambassador |
White in demanding reparation from the
German government.
Mr. Schilling was arrested in his resi- |
dence at Zittau last Friday by a police-
man, who believed him to be a default-
ing preacher of the name of Matthes,
who had fled from Magdeburg. Expla-
nations and official documents proving
his identity being of no avail, Schilling
was led through the streets to the jail,
followed by gaping crowds. The prison
guards compelled him to give up his
valuables, including several hundred
marks in funds belonging to the consul-
ate.
When Schilling resisted the attempt
to seize his wallet of private papers, the
guards overpowered him and threw him
into a cell.
His identification was made by tele-
phone from Leipsic, where his father is
stationed as the representative of the
American News Company. Then he se-
cured his- release. Schilling was for-
merely a resident of Chicago, where he
attended the College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
A TRAIN DYNAMITED.
An Express on the Northern Central Smashed
Near York, Pa.
York, Pa. (Special).—Part of the
through train for the West which left
Baltimore over the Northern Central
Railway at 9 o'clock was blown from
the tracks by a big charge-of dynamite
soon after leaving this city at 10.44 P.
M.
. The train was composed of four Pull-
man cars, a day coach, a combination
car and express car. It was running
at the rate of 45 miles an hour, when
the engine struck the dymamite. Al-
though the windows in the locomotive
cab were blown to pieces, Engineer
Thurmer stuck to his post and succeed-
ed in stopping the heavy train after it
had run over the ties for 200 feet.
The scene of the wreck is about one
mile north of the city, close to where
Codorus creek flows between high hills.
The Northern Central crosses the
stream on an open iron bridge, which is
50 feet above the bed of the stream.
Conductor Grove says the bandits evi-
dently planned to throw the train into
the creek. When the attempt failed the
Foaers we believe, took refuge in the
hills.
NEARLY 500,000 IMMIGRANTS.
Of These 117,587 Were Unable to Read
or Write.
Washington, D. C., (Special).—The
annual report of Commissioner-General
Powderly, of the Immigration Bureau,
shows the total steerage arrivals in the
United States during the year to have
been 487,018, an increase over the pre-
ceding year of 30,346, or approximately
9 per cent.
Of this increase 2,020 came through
Canadian ports and the - remainder
through ports. of this country. The ratio
ha ration, as
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
The Army of the Railroads.
The Industrial Commission has issued
a report on railway labor in the United
States. It shows that railway employees
in this country constitute an army of
nearly 1,000,000 people, with probably
nearly 5,000,000 people dependent upon
! the wages paid by railroads.
The report states that for years to
come the railroads will absorb an in-
creasing number of employees. The ma-
jority of the roads, the report says, are
developing a system of discipline by
which they avoid suspensions and en-
courage loyal, personal service, and thus
promote better relations between em-
ployer and employed. A general ten-
dency manifest on the part of the roads
to exercise greater care in the main-
tenance of their labor force and in its
improvement is noted.
The report urges some legislative lim-
tations of the fellow-servant principle
\ or doctrine of common employment.
Cesslon of Danish Islands.
The negotiations between the United
| States and Danish Govenments relative
to the cession to the former of the Dan-
ish West Indies have been transferred
to Washington. The negotiations were
initiated by Mr. Swenson, United States
Minister to Copenhagen, about three
years ago, and later Mr. White, sec-
retary of the embassy at London, took
up the work in behalf of the United
States.
The transfer to Washington was
brought about through the desire of
the Danish Government to place its in-
iterests in the matter in the hands of Mr.
Constantin Brun, Danish Minister here.
He spent some time at Copenhagen last
summer and returned to Washington
recently, prepared to carry forward the
negotiations with Secretary Hay. It is
learned that within the last few days
there has been increased activity in the
negotiations, and that material progress
has been made toward the completion
; of a treaty of cession.
Eat More Than They Grow.
Considerable time at the Cabinet meet-
ing Friday was devoted to consideration
of the agricultural situation in the
Philippines.
Reports received by the War Depart-
ment indicate vegetables grown there are
“running out” and there is immediate
necessity for a general distribution of
seed. Secretary Root told the Cabinet
that not enough rice, which is the great
| staple, is grown there to meet local con-
sumption.
Secretary Wilson will send one of the
| department’s experts with assistants to
the islands to investigate the situation.
It is expected that many things not here-
tofore grown there can be produced. The
seed will be distributed gratis.
It is understood that the President,
in his message, will make no direct rec-
ommendation on the subject of taxation.
The situation will be laid before Con-
gress and its attention called to the rec-
ommendations of Secretary Gage.
Paris Green on Plants
At the recent second session of the an-
nual convention of the Association of
Official Agricultural Chemists, at the
Columbian University, the subjects of
liquor and food adulteration, nitrogen,
insecticides, cider fermentation and
dairy products were discussed.
There was a long report on insecti-
cides which recommended the continu-
ance of present methods for determin-
ing the presence of formaldehyde in
compounds. This led to lively debate re-
garding the use of paris green as an in-
secticide, the injury to plants and the
use of lime as a possible preventive of
this injury. It was finally agr ! that
lime lessens the injury, but does not al-
together overcome it.
These Gold Shipments.
Treasury officials say they feel no ap-
prehension on account of the exporta-
tions of gold. It is said Secretary Gage
regards the shipments as a natural move-
ment in view of the goperel demand for
ope, and that he believes
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