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Show Η SEVENTY KILLED IN COAL MIN Not a Single One of the Workmen Who Went Down the Ill Fated Shaft Escaped Death. Fearful Explosion in Mine Causes the Bodies of nate English Horrible the Men Being Coal Tragedy, UnfortuBadly Manaled. Wigan, Englanu.—It is not believed that a single man of the seventy miners who were entombed by an ex plosion which occurred in the Maypole coal mine here survived the dis aster. The four men reporied res cued were engaged in an adjoining compartment. The ventilating fan which was put out of order by the explosion was re paired Wednesday morning an’ the mine having been cleared of gases the rescue party again descended The sight which met their eyes was horrifying. Not far from the bottom of the shaft, eighteen bodies were found, all frightfully mutilated, arms and legs had been blown off and heads. battered almost beyond recog riiton. The management of the mine declares that between sixty and seventy men were under ground at the tim of the explosion, and that there is no bope that any of them would be brought out alive. The women and children, however, who remained at the pit head all night, refused to leave until the bodies of their dead were brought to the surface. Nothing else would convince them οἳ the hopelessness of waiting. EASY MONEY FOR LAWYERS. Lawsuit in Mexico Which Lasted Three Hundred and Forty Years. Mexico City.—A final settlement has just been madeinalawsuit which bas been pending in the courts of the state of Oaxaca for three hundred end forty years, The dispute arose between the local authorities of the Nowns of Yodocome and Nvunu_ over the question of the legal, boundary line between the two villages. Both towns held titles to the same land, the conflicting grants being made by the colonial government. The titles held by private parties were also in- volved, and each town brought suit against the other. During all t time the inhabitants of the respective towns were arrayed against one another in bitter enmity, and many ermed conflicts occurred between the opposing factions. Roosevelt Will Not Taft. Campaign for Oyster Bay, Aug. 18.—A published report that President Roosevelt had offered to take the stump for Taft this fall was denied on Tuesday by Rudolph Forster, the president's assistant secretary. He said no such offer had been made, and reiterated the statement that the president would make no campaign speeches. Truman S. Newberry, acting secretary of the navy, who was the guest of the president over night, had a talk with the president on the naval militias He made a report to Mr. Roosevelt of the maneuvers of the fleet in which the volunteer naval men from six states took part, at Farringer’s bay last week. He told the president that the men had ac quitted themselves admirably. FOREST RESERVE RECEIPTS. The Sum of $447,063.79 to be Distrib. uted Among States. Washington —Figures just made public by the forest service show that under the new law requiring 25 per cent of the gross receipts of national forest business to be pa'd over to the states and territories in which the forests are located, to be use! for pliblic schools and roads, the last fiscal year will yield these state $417,063.79. The amounts which 50 te each vary from $313.68 for Arkansas, to more than $75,000 for Montana, Vote for Strike on Gould System. Denver.—Thestrike vote which was being taken by the machinists, boiler makers and blacksmiths, and their helpers, on all the Gould roads has been completed and authority to call ® strike has been placed in the hands of the executive officials. It is officially announced, however, that the men will not be called out just at this time. Instead, a movement is on foot to settle the Denver & Rio Grande sirike and thereby bring peace into the ranks of the railway unions of the west. ACCEPTANCE. SPEECH INECRCES LYNCHED) [ΙΒ1 cere CT FOR INDEPENUENCE BY THE LEGAL MONARCH A MODEL OF BREVITY WITHA TWENTY. YEARS fi, the breast from a pistol, and Gilmore wounds in the back from a shotgun. Both were brought to Memphis for medical treatment on a special train, each talking to the other en route and expressing reeret that be bad failed to contro) his temper. Colored BY FRENZIED MOB President Roosevelt Szys_ Fillpinos Are Making Rapid Strides in Vice-Presidential ments Freedom. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Independence in twenty years was the promise reld out by President Roosevelt to He There were brief addresses also by plans. After his visit to the president Senor Quezon said: “I was completely conquered by the He is a great man. me that he favored 11 possible business concessions to Secretary Root, by President M. W. the Filipinos who are able to carry Stryker of Hamilton college, from out improvements. But the best mes- which Mr. Sherman was graduated; sage I can take to my people from by Mayor Thomas Wheeler of Utica, the president is his assurance that he and by Charles S. Symonds, chairman hopes to see the island absolutely | of the local reception committee. independent within the next twenty Mr. Sherman, in his address of acyears. The president said that he did ceptance, followed the example of not believe the PMilippines would Mr. Taft in pledging the allegiance have learned enough about free gov- of any administration with which he ernment before that time or become rich and strong enough to defy outside enemies to be given complete independence. not wish to see any) “I asked the president how soon we could expect an extension of our) present political rights. The presi: dent sajd that he was pleased with the work of the present assembly and that he believed if the assembly next elected should show the same ability, a considerable extension of The next assembly is chosen two years hence.” EXCURSION STEAMER WRECKED. jaunt of Pleasure Seekers Ends In / Sorrow and Suffering. James Schoolcraft Sherman. Isabel | Traverse City, Mich.—Mrs. lLebonte of this city was killed and a | may have to do to the policies οἱ He declares score of persons were injured by the President Roosevelt. explosion of the boiled of the passen- there was no issue as to whether o1 ger steamer Leelanu, bound from Lee- not “the people shall rule.” “Surely the people shall rule,” said land to Rouche, on Carp lake. Havthe people ing aboard only pleasure seekers Mr. Sherman; “surely dec pound for Traverse City to attend a have ruled; surely the people wild west, cireus, the little steamer rule.” Casting thus aside was plowing down the narrow lake the campaign with a stqam pressure of eighty | slogan raised by Mr. Bryan, the Revice-presidential nominee pounds trying to make up the time) publican that had n lost in stages of the trp. The engineer dis-| covered ‘pes bolt in the engine and | shut off fhe steam. | While he was working on the bolt | the boiler gave way with a_ crash,| tearing off the top of the engine and demolishing the pilot house and the) upper works of the steamer, but leav- | that the overshadowing ing Engineer Edward Hardy un-| seathed by the havoc that swept beto all that had been fore him. said by Mr. Taft in his speech accepting the presidential nomination. He referred to ‘the Democratie party as an aggregation of “experimental malcontents and theorists, whose only claim to history is a party name they pil fered.” OIL WELL ABLAZE. Small Hole In Mexico Has Developed Into Veritable Volcano. Mexico City.—The great fire which has been raging in the Dosbocas oil well, near Tampico, for forty-three days, has baffled all attempts which Fighting have been made to extinguish it, anf From a hole eight inches in diame- Evans Navy. Retires hotel, reached the age limit ter the well has widened into a volcano with a crater 100 meters across, ft is estimated that the flames reach a height of ovet 500 feet, while the black column of smoke continues into the clouds. The reports received from of 62 years on Tuesday and passed from the ranks of the country’s active sea fighters. His has been the longest service (but two years short of half a century) of any man who nas reached the office of rear admiral in the United States navy. All through the day the hotel was thronged with admirers of “Fighting Bob,” in order to congratulate him on his sixty-second birthday and to wish him many more happy and useful years. Telegrams by the score reached him fromall parts of the country. | trom the students sent to the scene by the Mexican government estimated the amount of oil consumed at at feast 20,000 gallons per minute, CAMPAIGN OF SOCIALISTS. Special Train to be Run From Chlicago to Pacific Coast. Chicago.—The national executive committee of the Socialist party met nere Monday and madeplans for their It was decided to Bob Lake Mohonk, N. Y.—Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, of the United States navy, who is at this quiet mountain it figs now greater in volume than ever before, eampaign. Prohibition Candidate Accepts. Chicago.—At Music hall Tuesday night, in the presence of a large and enthusiastic audience, Eugene W. Chafin, of Chicago, accepted the nomination for the presidency by the send from this city on August 31 a special train to the Pacific coast carrying Pugene V. Debs, the Socialist party candidate fur president, anf several Prohibition party. The address forother speakers, among them A. A. SImally notifying Mr. Chafin of his semons. It is planned to visit 350 citlection as the head of the Prohibition ies between here and the Pacific ticket was made by Professor Chas. coast, after which the special will re- | Seanlan of Pittsburg, on behalf of turn to this city, thence to the At- the committee on notification apiantie coast. Addresses will be made pointed at the national convention. by the orators of the party at a large Leading members of the party from number of cities en route. A carload | Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, of Socialist party literature will be} Indiana, Nebraska and other states taken along and distributed. were present. Governor Haskell is Vexed. Oklahoma City, Okla—Omar | Another K. Benedict, editor and owner of the rimes, has been arrested on a charge ot criminal libel. The wurrant was issued On complaint of Governor Earthquake in California. Eureka, Cal., Aug. 18.—Three sharp earthquake shocks, which knocked down more than a hundred chimneys, shattered about forty plate glass windows in the business portion of Charles N. Haskell, treasurer of the Eureka, Democratic houses aad sent many people scurrying from their beds into the streets, occurred here early Tuesday. The national campaign. It was based on an editorial in last Friday’s News, in which it was intimated the Latter Were Defeated. defend their homes in the event of vu outbreak here similar to that at Springfield. Tangier—A wireless dispatch re “Arm yourselves and be men,” he ceived from Abdel Aziz, the sultar | said. “If a raging mob surrounds of record, announces the victory of your home, protect your household, | his troops over the troops under Muand when the man who would ruip iai Hafid, the usurping sultan, in an your family and destroy your propDespite the Presence of Militia, the | engagement recently fought during erty steps across the threshold, let Homes of Negroes Are Burned to the march toward Morocco City, stat- him step across the body of a dead the Ground and Colored Men mung that the defeat of the enemy was man.” Subjected to Torture. complete. The losses of the adherHe declared that America is a cowents of Mulai Hafid are estimated at ardly nation, which, with power to 500 killed and 500 wounded. An im defy the world, refuses to grant proSpringfield, II.—Two white men mense amount of booty was cap tection to innocent and defenseless were killed and one negro was lynch- tured. Abdel Aziz, at the head of a | people forty years removed from ed, more than half a hundred persons column, defeated the Pehama tribe, | slavery, because of their color. Talks were injured and two score of houses, who were suporting Μπα] Hatfid, with the congregation indicate that mostly oecupied by negroes were hilling fifty of the tribesmen and the negroes fear an outbreak in Chicago and are preparing for it. The burned Friday night as the result ot taking 200 prisoners. chief of police, however, declared an attempt by a mob to lynch @ negrc that the chance of a race war here is who had assautled a white woman, BANDITS TRICKED BY CLERKS. | remote, and riot, arson After a night of Train Robbers Overlooked Mail Sack slaughter, the state troops, called out NAVY COSTS \AST SUM. and Are Poorly Paid for Trouble. by the governor, succeeded early Sat. | of Many Participants. urday in restoring a semblance of or-| Spokane.—One of the most daring England May Borrow $500,000,000 to der, One thousand militiamen, in-||hold-ups ever attempted on a transBuild More Ships. city this from companies three cluding continental train befell Northern PaLondon.—The British government, DeBloomington, and companies from cific No. 3 almost within the city Ἠπ|- according to the Daily Telegraph, catur, Perkin and Pontiac, were set its of Spokane after midnight Satur-_ contemplates raising a large loan in patrolling the streets. day night. Two masked highwaymen Despite the presence of the troops | stopped the train at Otis and boarded \iew of the growing naval competition abroad. It is stated that fnananother victim was added to the list After a brief encounter | ciers of the highest standing have on Saturday night, yhen William Don.| the engine. the ee Doni-| With the engineer and fireman undertaken to find $500,000,000 on igan, an aged negro, was killed. setting aside of this fund would be & declaration translated into terms of cash, of the country’s intention to maintain a two-power standard at all costs. KEPT UNDER HEAVY GUARD. Thirty-one Men Under Arrest for the Blocton Shooting. Centerville, Ala—Thirty-one prisoners, arrested *n connection with the firing into a train Sunday at Blocton, in which three men were killed and eleven injured, have been lodged in jail and are being kept under heavy guard. Robert Hayes, the away to Bloomington for safe keep-|mutinied and killed their commander ing. | because a comrade had been arrestBalked of their prey, the members| ag for gambling, joined have only American in the number, who the is president of the Blocton local Miners’ union, was placed in a sep warlike, living in the| arate cell and heavily guarded. The | fierce and cireuit court will take up the cases southwest portion of the province of | two weeks* from date. | re a in is hpme |Kwangtung. Their of the mob wreaked vengeance upon |v... 4 rebellious tribe of aborigines,| a restaurant keeper who had assisted in spiriting away the suspected negro, by completely wrecking his restaurant and burning his automobile. Lewis Johnson, a white boy, aged 17, was|gion of inaccessible mountains and) Killed during the rioting at the res-|they have never been subjected to | Loeb on Fishing Trip. St. Paul.—William Loeb, Jr., secre governmental control. taurant. tary to President Roosevelt, was After burning many houses in the Admiral Li has arrived here in his | gunboats, | negro quarter the meh. which became | flagship, accompanied by | night the as ate despe more more and torpedo boats and launches. Troops | passed, finally gratified its thirst for | have also been summoned and the), With representatives of in St. Paul ca Saturday, the guest of Mr. broke much crockery in the fearful rioting, denies his guilt | gest mining concerns in the bitumi- | Success of Wireless Telephone. nous fields of western Pennsylvania, | and declares he can prove an alibi. Paris —The naval lieutenants, Colin, o1 y Sunda on here arrival With the | went into the hands of a receiver on | Jeance and Mercer, the inventors of regi the Second and Seventh infantry Saturday. Judge Edwards of this city | a wireless telephone apparatus which of ons squadr two and G., N. I. mens, appointed Thomas H. Watkins as re | the First cavalry, all from Chicago ceiver, on the application of the Scran-| recent tests have shown to be superior | , to anything existing, achieved remarkthe entire national guard of Iilinois in |ton Trust company, trustee for bondable success with their new instru with the exception of the Sixth colry, infant holders, which alleges that the com- ;} ment on Sunday, communicating with fantry and the Fighth dis idden riot-r the in pany, through its lessee, the Pennsy) ored, is on duty | the wireless station at Raz de Seine, tricts. In all 4,200 guardsmen are in vania, Beach Creek & Western Coa) company, was unable to meet its renthe city. | tal obligations.” W. A. Lathrop, prest. Sunday passed without any violent department of Finistere, & distance of | about 310 miles. The officers are con| fident that they can make great imlarga dent of the company, gives the intrinalthough demonstrations, and provements in the apparatus, enab they streets, | sic value of the property at more than) ling the exchange of conversation up crowds thronged the and s. $26,000,000, against a total indebted | to 600 or 700 miles. were mostly curiosity seeker s. | ness of about $13,000,000. were easily handled by the soldier Girl Kidnaped by Lover. Bauer, | Butte, Mont.—Miss Freda Conrad aged sixteen, daughter of miles Bauer, a rancher living twelve Thurseast of Billings, was abducted day night at the point of revolvers Bauer accuses by two masked men, two ranch hands, both lovers of the Died in Quarantine Prison. Tombstone, Ariz—General Wardwell died Saturday Ῥ. Tried to Swim English Channel. London.—Of the many attempts to | Κ., swim the English channel none has afternoon | come nearer resulting in success than while in quarantine with his leper} that made by T. W. Burgess, the wife. Her sufferings from the com-) blacksmith swimmer. Burgess was bined effects of leprosy and the ner- | compelled to give up his attempt vous strain following the attendant within one mile of Cape Grisnez, on notoriety of their case has dethroned the coast of France, because of the her reason, and she is totally un-| adverse tide. He entered the water girl, who have also disappeared. Tha }aware that her husband is dead. abduction was cleverly effected. The called General Wardwell was a veteran of ranch, men rode up to the Efforts+ Mrs. the Mexican and civil wars. Bauer out and covered him. the to deport Mrs. Wardwell to the leper Bauer ran screaming down to girl colony have brought out many comthe noad to a neighbor’s. and plications, the federal authorities re- | was spirited away. fusing aid. | at Dover Monday morning, and in spite of the rough sea and the cur- rents which carried him miles out of his course, he remained in the water for twenty hours and eleven minutes. Tired of Life. Angry Husband Shoots to Kill. Louisville, Ky.—Alfred T. WimberRichard Croker Denies Having Sian.| Bayside, L. I—Captain Peter Con. ly, state manager of the Bankers’ dered President Roosevelt. over Haines, Jr., U. S, A., son of Brig adier General Peter Conover Haines, VU. S. A, retired, fired seven bullets from a revolver into William E. Annis Life association of Des Moines, Ia., and a well-known insurance man, was found dead in bed at his home Tuesday afterncon. Death was caused by a self-inflicted pistol wound, according to the coroner. A letter found on a table in the room read as follows: “‘T am neither drunk nor insane. I have no domestic troubles or busi- Dublin.—In an interview on Sunday, Richard Croker complained of misrepresentations that have been published respecting his views of Pres. of New York, owner and publisher of recently ident Roosevelt, and especially a com- Burr Mcintosh’s Monthly, and other parison between the president and magazines, late Saturday on the land-| King Edward and an assertion that {ng stage of the Bayside Yacht club, | President Roosevelt was only at home with his books. Mr. Croker denied having made srch criticism. David ness troubles. I have committed no I Bennett Hill, the former governor οἱ crime. I am simply tired of life. Flushing, and Annis, whom Captain Haines’ brother had accused of having been improperly attentive to the cap tain’s wife died in the Flushing hos- pital a few hours after the shooting. Evans on Retired List. New York, is on a week’s quiet holt | have always had despondent spells, for which mycreator is responsible.” | day with Mr. Croker, | Writer of Short Stories for Children Pitiful Tale of Girl Wife. | Mohonk Lake, N. Y—On Tuesday | Graziano,|| New York.—Mrs, Rose evening Rear Admiral Robley Evans aged 19, walked into the police sta-| “Fighting Bob,” concluded forty-eight tion in Brooklyn, presented a loaded, years of service in the United States reoviver to the detective at the court | navy, and being at the age of 62, jand anndunced that she had shot! goes on the retiredlist. The admiral, | and killed her husband, Dominick | unable to use one foot because of the iliness which compelled him to leave Graziano, a laborer, “I killed him Dead. Boston.— Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, the well known authoress, died at her home here Monday after an illness of nearly nine months. Mrs. Moulton’s death was due to acute Bright’s disease. Mrs. Moulton was born at Pomfret, Conn., in 1835. She because he wanted me to become an married William U. Molton in 1855, harbor—a|immoral woman,” she said. “Do you “Yer husband died ten years ago. She the fleet in San Francisco damage reported so far is estimated atenka eee aeoft | think I did wrong?” She then began | The Standard Oil company in the Ὁ east y Σ 8 'to weep. She said that her husband| shocks extended as far north as Blue hoise at Kansas City, Mo. on June | but mentally alert and vigorous, 1s at| bad refused to work, had spent $600, lakes, twenty-five mies north of Eu16 last, when he was supposed to be | reka. ‘tu Muskogee, to get more hat Governor Haskell was in confer. | ance necessi- ties of the fleet for the next few years without disorganizing the annual budgets or casting a heavy bur“en upon the present’ generation. If suck a plan is attempted it will be beeause it is impossible to forecast the future requirements of the navy until foreign shipbuilding programmes have crystalized, and the George Thompson, editor of the Dis patch. Mr. Loeb will return with Mr. issue of the campaign really is, blood when Charley Hunter, a negro, | country is in a turmoil. The mutl- | Thompson to Camp Kobikana, -near “Shall the administration of Presi- was lynched <t the corner of Twelfth | neers are 1,000 in number, and after) International falls, where Mr. Loeb | and Madison streets, right in the hear‘ murdering their commander pillaged | has been a member of a fishing and dent Roosevelt be approved?” Lands.” the village, securing $100,000 in hunting camp with Secretary Oscar Mr. Sherman made no attempt to of the district called “Bad too late Mr. Loeb money, and withdrew to the Taiking | Straus for several weeks. discuss in detail any of the issues Troops arrived at the scene the of Some . lynching said he was entirely ignorant of the raised in the party platform, content- to prevent the mountains. the that declare mob the of s trend of public affairs, but waxed ening himself with the declaration that member white had shot two thusiastic about the big fish in the he subscribes fully and heartily to negro lynched Owes Thirteen Millions. men. lakes in that region. He declared that all that has been written into the Scranton, Pa—The Pennsylvania he had “the time of his life.” negre the son, Richard George Chicago statement of principles and to led Coal & Coke company, one of the big- | charged with the assault which earlier asserted the members one of the leading negro churches in this city, were told by their pastor, Rey. D. P. Roberts, on Sunday, to arm themselves and be prepared to Hig| tached and one of the highwaymen, simple and inoffensive citizen, shop was within two blocks of the taking charge of the engine, the parIn the absence of a pa- ty came on west to Trent, where the state house | trol, the mob set fire to the shop and trainmen were dismissed by the robthe venerable negro was compelled by proceeded. then bandits The bers. the smoketo run into the street. His to within a mile of Yardley, where appearance was greeted by a shower rob the mail car. of stones and bricks, and as he stag: they proceeded to baggage car and the express The 5612 was he fusillade underthe gered ed and his throat cut. A rope was car were untouched and none of the then run through the wound and the passengers was molesied | Tricked by the quick wit of mail victim bound to a tree. There he was to believed is plunder clerks, little found later, unconscious and dying. The rioting was precipitated by an have been captured by the two men. assault committed by a negro upon Warned that the robbers were comMrs. Mabel Hallam, wife of a stre¢et ing, the clerks took advantage of the car conductor, While the woman time after the train had been cut in slept, alone in her home on a populous | two and threw the loca! registered sack, newspaper a residence street, awaiting the returp packages into of her husband, the man broke into | where they were not noticed. the house, dragged her into the rear yard and assaulted her. Before noon SOLDIERS JOIN SAVAGES. negro, George Richardson, a young was arrested by the sheriff's force,! Mutinous Chinese Murder Command’ charged with the crime. The victim er and Take to the Mountains. prisoner, the identified partially Hong Kong.—The soldiers stationCrowds quickly gathered about the who. spirited|ed at Konghau, near Wuchow, jail, but Richardson was condition brought about that would give any other nation a chance to interfere in the affairs of the islands. 1 “an tell our people, however, that when we are strong enough the president believes we will be independ ent. power would be allowed. hundred gan was a cobbler and respected as aj mail car, next to the engine, was de- nominal terms to meet the | “The president made it plain that America does Chicago. In a Battle Between Abdel Aziz’s Sol Race Riot in Capital of Illinois Results in Four Deaths and Injury Taft. ARM. Pastor Fears Race War its Chicago.—Five diers and Mulai Hafid’s Troopers, giving the Filipimo assembly on Monday. Senor Manuel Quezon, the majority leader, expressed himself as delighted with the president’s assurance and said that the president had said that the Filipinos would have their political freedom greatly advanced two vears henee, according to present president. of NEGROES TO of the congregation of Quinn chapel, Shermar Utica, N. Y.—In one of the briefest speeches ever delivered by a candi date for so high an office, James Schoolcraft Sherman at noon on Tuesday, August 18, accepted th« nomination of the Republican part) for the viee-presidency. He spoke from a flag-decked stand in front of his home in Genesee street, sur rounded by party leaders from differ ent sections of the country and by » {erowd of non-partisan friends and townsmen. The nomination was ten dered by a committee appointed at the Chicago convention in June, Sen ator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan being the chairman and spokesman. ; the leaders of the majority party in assured Candidate Subscribes to Policies of Roosevelt and Approves State- Progress Toward Political Southerners Revert to Dueling. Memphis, Tenn. —Rivalry over business matters between prominent merchants of Robinsonville, Miss., produced an argument there Wednesday afternoon between H. B. Suber end J. H. Gilmore, which ended in a street duel, Suber receiving a wound ADVISES the lat between $2,000 and $3,000, Coates| the LakeMononhous, wherehe bas [at her money and then requested | wrote a large number of short stories for children, as well as a number of novels and poems. She spent many years of her life in London, where she became well knownin literary circles. |