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Show I BRIEF TELEGRAMS Brief Telegrams. Washington. New Year's day of 1910 was ushered in with an earthquake. It occurred during the early hours of dawn, with the possibility, in the minds of the officials, that serious damage has been done somewhere. The force of the quake, as recorded by the weather bureau here, closely approximated tha violence of the big quake at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The bureau figures that its greatest force was felt 2,000 miles south and southwest of Washington. The first shock was at 6:04 a. m., the second at 6:0S and the third at 6:11. The third shock was so strong that it threw the delicate seismograph pen off the cylinder. Mexico City. An earthquake was reported re-ported to the weather bureau here from Dicio Chico, in the province of Quin-tana Quin-tana Roe, Yucatan, New Year's day. It occurred at 4:25 a. m. and lasted twenty seconds. It was followed by a second shock of less severity at 4:50. It is not known whether serious damage was done. San Francisco. Tlie seimograph at the observatory of the University of California at Berkeley recorded an earthquake at approximately the same time as the disturbance recorded by the weather bureau at Washington. The extent ex-tent and duration of the shock has not yet been computed by the authorities. Albany, N. Y. The seismograph at the state museum recorded an earthquake. earth-quake. The oscillations began at 6:03 o'clock and continued more than two hours, the maximum waves occurring at 6:19. Officials at the museum say the disturbance may have, occurred somewhere some-where in Mexico. St. Louis. The seismograph of the St. Louis university recorded an earthquake earth-quake which began at 5:0G::42 o'clock New Year's morning. The shock continued contin-ued thirty minutes and thirty seconds, the greatest oscillation occurring at 5:10. The principal motion was from the east to the west. Trenton, Mo. Spreading rails caused the wreck of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific passenger train near here, in which three people were killed and forty-three injured, according to a coroner's coro-ner's verdict returned tonight. Search today of the wreckage of the three cars derailed and burned here yesterday revealed re-vealed no further trace of bodies, and officials of the road definitely placed the number of .de;vl at three. The body of the unknown ttman was identified today to-day as that of Mrs. T. Hedricks of Chicago, Chi-cago, aged 25. She was on her way to Kansas City on a visit. The body is being held here awaiting the arrival of Mr. Hedricks. Bones discovered in the remains of the baceaare car Droved to be those of a dog. All of the forty-three injured were resting easy today. W. I. Millington, the engineer, is suffering greatly, but it is believed he will recover. Pittsburg. William Gibson, aged 48 years, a resident of Munhall, a suburb, tonight shot and killed his wife, seriously seri-ously wounded a son, fired three shots at his fleeing daughter, and then killed himself. London. A woman believed to be a suffragette attempted New Year's day to destroy a quantity of campaign literature lit-erature at the political headquarters of John Burns at Battersea with acid. The clerk in charge was seriously burned about the face and hands. The woman gained an entrance to the headquarters head-quarters on the pretense of addressing envelopes. New Orleans, La. Dr. Tclmaco Lopez, Zelaya's governor on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, who was held prisoner for two months by Genreal Estrada, declared the next battle in Nicaragua would be fought near Managua. He said Madriz, the new president, will fight to the last ditch, but he believes Estrada will win. St. Ixiuis. All of the 150 workmen who were imperiled when the false work of the McKinley bridge across the Mississippi Mis-sissippi collapsed have been accounted ! for. The false work was torn away by ice floes. The workmen today were none the worse for their experience. Montreal. Twenty-two persons were injured by the explosion which wrecked the train platform at Place Vigor station, sta-tion, the east end of the city. Most of the injuries consist of broken legs. Mrs. Charles Brunatt of Montreal cannot live. The explosion was caused by the igniting ignit-ing of an accumulation of gas under the long wooden platform paralleling the station. The midnight train of the Canadian Pacific for Quebec was stand -! mg on the tracks adjoining the platform and an unusually large number of holiday holi-day travelers were bidding good-bye to friends, when suddenly a score of them were hurled into the air as if shot from a giant catapult. Some went straight up twenty or thirty feet. Others were thrown over the top of the train and one man with both legs broken was found on the roof of one of the coaches. Detroit, Mich It was rumored that Airs Cook, wife of Dr. Frederick A. Cook is in Detroit. The report had its orig'n in Windsor, Canada, where it is said a thickly-veiled woman called for mail addressed to "Mrs. Dr. Frederick A Cook." After receiving her mail she hancd to Detroit. Postal authorities at Windsor said the woman first appeared ap-peared about the time Dr. Cook was reported re-ported to be in London, Ont. Georgetown. Ky. Because he could not remember part Of the address which he was to deliver at a banquet. Judge John C. Vovis, 32 years old. shot and killed himself. Judge Vovis. who was a member of the Kentucky bar and well known as an after-dinner speaker, was to speak at. a New Year's selebration. When he arose to address the audience his memory failed him, and after several sev-eral attempts to continue he abruptly left the room. Later the janitor of the building in which Judge Vovis' chambers cham-bers were located stumbled over the body of the jurist. : Fresno. Cal. For the first time in sixteen six-teen years snow fell here early today. Fruit trees are bending under its weight. ' Newburgh. X. Y.-Mrs. Edward H. Harriman has offered to the state of New York for park purposes 10.000 of the 30 000 acres ircluded in the famous Harriman estate in Orange county. One of the cherished intentions of the late E. H. Harriman was to give this property prop-erty to the state to be used forever as a great public park, free to all people. New York. So much interest in soccer soc-cer football was aroused in the west by the visit of the Pilgrims of England, who were brought out by the International Interna-tional Soccer association of St. Louis, that arrangements are being made to have a team of Irish players come here in the spring. An invitation has been sent to the Irish Football league by the Peel challenge cup commission of Chicago, Chi-cago, of which Joseph G. Davis, a former for-mer New York cricketer, is the secretary. secre-tary. Charles Comiskey, president of the Chicago White Sox, is interested in the undertaking. The schedule will be made up for the months of March and April. Washington. No official news of the recognition of Madriz as president of Nicaragua by any of the Central American Amer-ican governments has been received here. President Zelaya having abandoned aban-doned his post, the state department regards Madriz as leader of a faction and does not consider him entitled to any recognition beyond that. ( A continuation of relations between ministers from Central American governments gov-ernments and Madriz for the purpose of conducting necessary business is regarded re-garded as entirely proper without formal for-mal recognition of him as president. Berlin. The North German Gazette publishes figures to illustrate the . expansion ex-pansion of recruiting for the navy, especially es-pecially in parts of Germany more or less remote from the sea. The number of volunteers, in particular 4,077 in the year 1S0S-09 has increased by 696 in the last five years. Taking the country according ac-cording to its division into army corps, the sphere of the ninth army corps (Schleswig-Holstein, the Hansatowns and Mecklenburg) now yields 2,513 men, the sphere of the Tenth army corps (Hanover) now yields 1,355 men, the sphere of the Seventh army corps corps (Scettin) 1,047 men, and the sphere of the Fourth army corps (Magdeburg) 1,036 men. The army corps districts of Konigsberg and Saxony (two army corps) each yield over 900 men. Five years ago only a single army corps district dis-trict (Mecklenburg, etc.) yielded over 1,000 men. The semi-official organ argues ar-gues from the latest statistics that the German navy has no lack, notwithstanding notwith-standing the growth of the personnel that inland districts are yielding an increasing in-creasing proportion to recruits and that "the press of young Germany to the sea finds eloquent expression in the increasing increas-ing number of volunteer applications." Dublin. The fact that the Irish parliamentary par-liamentary leader has unanimously decided de-cided to support Premier Asquith in the general elections has given general satisfaction. sat-isfaction. As John Redmond put it in a speech urging action, "Premier As-quith's As-quith's declaration gives us the greatest chance we have had in the last century of tearing up and trampling under foot the infamous Act of Union. Our opponents op-ponents are no longer millions of the British population, but a few hundred gentlemen in the house of lords. Rose-bery Rose-bery has declared that the lords' veto is the sole remaining obstacle to home rule. Premier Asquith is asking the British people for a mandate to deal with Irish self-government in the next parliament. Therefore the Irish leaders advise their people in Great Britain to vote Liberals." Liber-als." It is confidently believed here that the Nationalists not only will gain several sev-eral seats in Ireland, but that their votes will mean Liberal success in many an English constituency. Laurence Ginnell, M. P., who spoke at Rathowen, West Meath. recently outlined out-lined a new plan for breaking up the "ranches." Referring to the defects of the new land act. he said: It had never been intended that the act should do any good, and the people should return to the old methods. If the landlords did not sell to their rack-rented tenants at a fair price, their plan for the present was to pay no more rent, but to lodge it in the hands of private trustees, less the reductions which purchase at a fair price would have given them. If the landlord refused to sell at that price, the money could be used for fighting purposes. As to the ranchers, who had been tolerated too long, the cattle at a given signal should be hunted off the grazing lands for miles in a single night. The next morning, while the police po-lice were searching for the animals, twenty or thirty plows could be brought into the grazing land and broad belts of sod turned over here and there. This would put an end to ranching. No crime would have been done, no blood would have been spilt, nothing but a trespass would have been committed, for which the owned could sue at quarter quar-ter sessions if he liked, but he would probably prefer to sell the land at once for distribution. The plow and the hazel,' blessed instruments of old, would be doubly blessed by posterity if they were now successfully used to release Ireland from the landlords and grabbers. grab-bers. During last week two cattle drives have taken place in County West Meath. In one instance eighty head of cattle were driven five miles away from the farm on which they had been grazing, graz-ing, and in the other fifty animals were scattered. At a meeting of the Mullin-gar Mullin-gar rural council the chairman, M. Re-nan, Re-nan, said that he had been asked to submit sub-mit the following resolution: "That we, the Mullingar- rural district council, congratulate the men of Multyfarnham off The ranches."" mere was no' objection objec-tion to the resolution, which was signed by the chairman. A scheme for a land bank in Ireland, organized somewhat after the Bank of England, is being agitated by the Liberal Lib-eral press. The Idea is to assist small landholders in Ireland by an institution that shall be partly a public company and partly a state organization, the capital cap-ital to be $a0,000,000, with 3 per cent interest in-terest guaranteed by the state. Aughrane castle. County Roscommon, and 300 acres of land surrounding it, have been purchased by T. W. Russell, M. P., for the Irish agricultural department. depart-ment. The .castle and demesne formed a portion of the Eagot estate, the greater great-er part of which was recently taken over by the estates commissioners and divided amongst thi tenants. Some dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction has been caused in the district, dis-trict, as it was believed that the commissioners com-missioners had intended that they become be-come purchasers of the 300 acres. j London. The historic mansion of Lebanon house, Twickenham, has been ; completely gutted by fire. The house was of . considerable interest historically. Cromwell stopped there for a night during dur-ing his Journey to Windsor. It was at one time the residence of the celebrated Misses Ring. It had been the headquarters head-quarters of the Whig party in the time of Lord Stafford. New York. Martin J. Sheridan, the world's greatest all around athlete, has retained his title of the greatest point gatherer. During the past twelve months the giant weight thrower of the Irish-American Athletic club rolled up the unprecedented score of 347 points. Never before in the history of sport has such a record been made by an amateur athlete. Last year he headed the list with a record number of 181. The annual report of the Irish-American Athletic club shows that the members mem-bers of that organization tallied 2,531 points during 1909, which is more than they gathered the preceding year. They won 25 championships, captured 17 point trophies and broke 26 records. Among the track men, Jack Eller, the sprinter and hurdler, comes first. He finished fourth on the list with a total of 112 points. Jim Rosenberger, whose form this season earned him the title of the greatest quarter-miler in the country, coun-try, was second among the track men, with 109 points to his credit. Jim Crowley was third with 120. Melvm Sheppard, who finished second to Sheridan last year, finished eighteenth. eight-eenth. His total for the season was 54. This is 96 behind his last year's total. Although only running in its colors for a few months, Emilio Lunghi, the Italian llyer, tallied 60 points. Abel Kiviat, the Staten Island schoolboy, also made an excellent showing. He finished seventh on the list with a total of 63. New York. Baron Wilmowsky of Berlin, and his wife, who was Miss Barbara Bar-bara Krupp, daughter of the great German Ger-man gunmaker, have left for Germany, after a three months' sightseeing trip in the United States and Canada. "What interested us most," said the baron just before departing, "was the settlement work which we observed in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities. My wife takes great interest inter-est in this work, and she is carrying back with her many American ideas and plans which she hopes to use in Germany." When the baroness was asked if she was an advocate of woman suffrage, both she and her husband laughed and replied together: "No, not that." Ottawa, Ont. Elimination of level crossings in Canada is a policy to which the railway commission committed itself. it-self. All highways throughout the Dominion Do-minion must pass either above or below railways in future. New York. F. A. Heinze, the former copper king, will return to New York only a few hours after the departure for Atlanta of Charles W. Morse, his onetime one-time friend and associate. He also comes back to pay a visit to the United States circuit court, where he will be asked what plea he has to offer to two more indictments which a federal grand jury has found against him. The indictments were returned several sev-eral weeks ago and Mr. Heinze was told that he would be wanted when the January term of court opened. The court was called for today and this morning it was announced that Heinze was on his way here. Both the indictments to which the copper man will have to say "guilty" or "not guilty," were sealed when found by the grand jury, and have remained sealed ever since. Heinze will have a distinguished array of counsel at his side when he appears in court. Chicago. Members of the switchmen's union representing the western roads agreed with the General Managers' association as-sociation to submit their demands for advance in wages and changes in hours to arbitration under the Erdman law. The switchmen asked for arbitration. Evansville, Ind. Deputy sheriffs who went to the home of Marshall McMur-ran, McMur-ran, aged 60, a hermit, near here, to remove re-move him to the state insane hospital, found that the man had $22,000 on his person. McMurran was almost starved. Dublin, Ireland. The Irish Nationalist National-ist convention, which opened Wednesday Wednes-day with John Redmond presiding, unanimously endorsed a resolution adopled hy the party committee the day before, pledging support of the Liberals Lib-erals in the coming general election. Timothy Healy and his handful of dissenting dis-senting disciples were not present. Paris. A special dispatch to the Temps from Brussels, says: "King Leopold is doomed. Before thd operation was undertaken the physicians physi-cians were in doubt whether he was suffering from a simple intestinal obstruction, ob-struction, which an operation would relieve, re-lieve, or from paralysis of the intestine, for which there was no remedy. Since the operation there has been no sign of intestinal activity, and this has led the doctors to conclude there is paralysis." Philadelphia. Laden with rapid-firing field pieces, 500,000 rounds of ammunition ammu-nition and clothing and provisions enough to last the men two months, the auxiliary cruiser Prairie prepared to make a second attempt to convey two battalions of marines to Colon, Panama. The vessel weighed anchor at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Chicago. John D. Rockefeller's way to a Christmas or New Year's gift will be paved today at a conference of the University of Chicago trustees in New York. President Harry Pratt Judson, Wallace Wal-lace Heekman, business manager; Martin Mar-tin A. Ryerson and Anderson Mac-Leigh, Mac-Leigh, trustees, and Tevor Arnett, auditor, au-ditor, left Chicago yesterday with the budget of the university. A gift of at least $1,000,000 is figured upon from Mr. Rockefeller, as many things are recommended in the way of additions as equipment and new buildings. build-ings. Chicago. Hjalmer Leonard, robbed of his surname by an oversight, has appealed ap-pealed to the courts to regain it. Hjalmer Hjal-mer inherited the name of Bordach from his forefathers and never intended to give it up when he came to America from Sweden, but when he took out his naturalization papers the clerk, through an oversight, omitted the surname and Hjalmer Leonard Bordach became just Hjalmer Leonard. Mr. Leonard never thought about the mistake until he learned there was an inheritance at stake. Now he has filed a petition in the circuit court to recover his lost patronymic. pat-ronymic. Washington. The United States supreme su-preme court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari In the contempt cases of Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, officers of the American Federation of Labor. The effect of the decision will be to bring the entire record in the Buck Stove & Range company case against these three men to the supreme court for review. re-view. Cuxhaven, Germany. News of fatalities fatal-ities resulting from the storm continue con-tinue to reach here. The fishing steamer Berlin has picked up the lifeboat life-boat of the small steamer Vegesack at the moutli of the Elbe. The Vegesack, it is believed, has foundered, probably with the loss of all on board. Four men, a young woman and a child, who were in the lifeboat, were frozen to death. The torpedo boat G 89, while attempting at-tempting to run into Husum harbor, went ashore, but her position is not thought dangerous. He Doeth All Things Well. The outward features of our life may not be alf that we should choose them to be. There may be things we wish for that never come to us. There may be much we wish away that we cannot can-not part from. The persons with whom we live, the circumstances by which we are surrounded, the duties we have to perform, the burdens we have to bear, may not only be other than what we should have selected for ourselves, but may even . seem inconsistent with that formation and discipline of character char-acter which we honestly wish to promote. pro-mote. Knowing us - better than we know ourselves, fully understanding how greatly we are effected by the outward events and conditions of life, God has ordered them with a view to our entire and final, not only our im- mediate happiness. And whenever we can safely be trusted with pastures that are green and waters that are still in the way of earthly blessing, the Good Shepherd leads us there. |
